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Skriven 2006-04-28 10:24:08 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 5904 av MARTIN ATKINS (1:123/140)
Ärende: Getting PCMCIA modem
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Hey MARTIN!

Apr 28 17:22 06, MARTIN ATKINS wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 MA> I've only got cheap speakers as i don't really listen to music.

Mine aren't too bad but I also hardly listen to music other then to test out
conversion schemes.

 MK>> Off a DVD-ROM or harddrive?

 MA> DVD-ROM and no jaggedness or sound problems. Plays in Xine, Kaffeine
 MA> Mplayer and Totem movie player but no joy with something called
 MA> Kdenlive and surprisingly Xmovie. I suspect with Xmovie it's just
 MA> something i haven't bothered setting up yet the other one looks like
 MA> overkill for anything i would want. Some info for you.

 MA> BENQ DVD DD DW1640, Pentium III (Coppermine) 930.391 Ram 256 KB

Sounds good but I thought you said you were playing it on a 233.

On mine cut and paste says;

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root@LMBrain:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping        : 10
cpu MHz         : 933.068
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1868.95

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping        : 10
cpu MHz         : 933.068
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1866.12

root@LMBrain:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x]
(rev c4)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x
AGP]
00:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev
40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 16)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 16)
00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev
40)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100]
(rev 08)
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100]
(rev 08)
00:10.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1221
00:10.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1221
00:11.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20375 (SATA150
TX2plus) (rev 02)
00:13.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
00:13.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 0a)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. G400/G450 (rev 85)

root@LMBrain:~# dmesg|less
hdc: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: SONY DVD RW DRU-800A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

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 MA> There doesn't appear to be anything in AUDIO_TS but in VIDEO_TS
 MA> i get:-

 MA> VIDEO_TS.BUP VIDEO_TS.IFO VIDEO_TS.VOB VTS_01_0.BUP VTS_01_0.IFO
 MA> VTS_01_0.VOB VTS_01_1.VOB VTS_01_2.VOB VTS_01_3.VOB VTS_01_4.VOB

 MA> I hope that's some help 'cos it means bugger all to me. :)

Yep.  Looks like a regular DVD movie.

 MA> It depends on what the user wants realy. I put it in when i was on
 MA> another tty terminal session and the sound started playing so
 MA> i can imagine somone wanting to listen to music while they work.

I used to do that except now that smp works with 'make -j 4' it gets pretty cpu
intensive so I save the horsepower by doing any multimedia stuff offline
usually the oldfashioned way (ie analog without a computer).  ;-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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