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On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:57:03 -0700

Bob van der Poel  wrote:
> Hi guys. I know this is a bit off topic, but I'm getting frustrated

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> beyond belief trying to get reasonable results from my DVD drives with

> a newly installed ubuntu 9.10

>

> The drives are both connected to a PATA interface (the only one on the

> MB). My hard drives are all SATA.

>

> All worked just fine on previous MBs and linux versions. Lastly had

> Ubuntu 8.04 running.

>

> My problem is that I know have very jerky video playback and slow

> seeks and crashes. I've tried mplayer, totem and vlc. Vcl seems to

> work best, but it's no star on this system.

>

> I've tried uninstalling pulseaudio, but that makes no difference.

>

> I've done a lot of reading of similar problems, but nothing seems to

> vector in on this. The ubuntu forms haven't been much help either ...

> just a lot of suggestions on trying different players, and installing

> libcss2, etc. That doesn't seem to be the problem.

>

> My guess is that it's a IRQ or DMA problem. I have no idea how to

> diagnose this or fix.

>

> So ... any ideas here????

>

>

The only suggestion I can come up with is in the past with 'weird'

problems of playback to check what dvd device is being pointed to in

the settings. i.e. /dev/dvd. 

Note I have kubuntu 9.10 installed on a separate partition and am using

ubuntu 9.04 here. This works fine but I have issues with nvidia and

9.10 that I have not solved yet. One thing I am going to try is using

the xorg.conf file from 9.04 for the 9.10 installation see if that

helps, but I would check your /dev first. Had lots of problems in the

past because of that not being named correctly. (and no sorry, I don't

know what it should be) mine here according to vlc is 
  /dev/sr1
which I am surprised to find. But vlc plays everything without

problems so...
nepal.

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