[ltp] Jerky video replay: T42/FC10

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Mendel Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com> wrote:
> T42 Thinkpad / FC10 / SXGA+ / Radeon 96xx video card
>
> Upgraded to FC10, and now when playing DVDs, the video jerks about every
> minute or so. Doesn't matter if using xine or vlc, same problem.
>
> Under FC8, DVDs played fine. Under Mandriva 2009, DVDs play fine. So, it's
> not a hardware problem, just an FC10 problem.
>
> Tried stopping services, including makewhatis, mlocate, and prelink,
> but it didn't fix it. Maybe it's some other background process sucking
> up resources.
>
> Any help/advice would be appreciated.

FC10 has some experimental ati bits for kernel modesetting and memory
management.  Compiz performance will be a bit lacking until the
remaining issues are sorted out.  I think you can switch back to the
old paths by booting with nomodeset on the kernel command line.

Alex