[ltp] DVD plays half of the screen twice

[Brian Weber]

A Mandrake 9.0 DVD tutorial (the best I've ever seen!)

DVD in Mandrake 9.0 looks great.

http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/

How to speed up hard disc/DVD ROM in Linux (A must!!)

http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html


Enjoy!

Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: <cdfrey@netdirect.ca>
To: <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: [ltp] DVD plays half of the screen twice


> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:54:31AM -0500, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> > > I would give the driver at http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/ a try.
> >
> > It won't help.  Same problem (at least on Red Hat 8.0).  I suspect this
> > driver was compiled with GCC 3.x.  If what I've read on this thread
> > about the same problem appearing in Gentoo is correct, then either
XFree86
> > 4.2.0 or 4.2.1 will show the problem if compiled with the latest gcc.
> >
> > As I'm not a programmer, this is of course a guess given what we know
> > about which drivers work and which don't. :)
>
> I'm the guy with the original problem, running Gentoo.  I don't have my
> laptop handy but I do believe that the 4.2.1 I was running had no
> external patches, and I still saw the split screen problem.
>
> It would be interesting to try compiling X 4.2.1 with gcc 2.95 and see
> if the problem goes away.  With Gentoo, this should be as easy as
> a couple environment variables and a bit of time, but I'm not guru enough
> yet to say for certain. :-)
>
> - Chris
>
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