[MPlayer-users] compilation bug?

Dominik Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Tue May 28 02:41:01 CEST 2002


On Tuesday, 28 May 2002, Rob Wallace wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Hmm, that's a lot of info... I'd say you're missing several devel rpms.

(I'm not sure if it was ironic, nevertheless...)
It sure was a lot of info. But still we didn't see the exact error message.
Without that, we can only guess.
 
> By the way, I found RedHat's 2.4.18 kernel slow when playing DVDs.
> Setting 'hdparm' made a big difference.
> 
> hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 /dev/cdrom

Or use the docs, and edit /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhd?, where ?=where your
CD drive is (mine is, for example, hdc). Only for ATAPI drives, of course.

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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann(at)rangers.eu.org>




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