Flash Video -- help!

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Feb 8 00:36:04 UTC 2011


On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:35:52PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Before you buy anything new, make sure you're using your current gear
> to its max.  I had issues recently getting live HDTV 1920x1080 streams
> from my HDHomerun tuner to play smoothly on my notebook.  The problem is
> most likely in your implementation of drivers for your card.  In my
> case, it involved loading the firmware blob for the Radeon chip.  And I
> can now follow live HDTV on the laptop.  First step is to plow through
> your...
> 
> 1) bootup logfile /var/log/dmesg
> 
> 2) X session startup logfile /var/log/Xorg.0.log file
> 
> ...and look for problems.  If you're unsure, try file-attaching the log
> files so we can pore over them.
> 
>   While we're at it; if someone could point me to a comprehensible
> explanation/tutorial on how to set up MTRR, I would greatly appreciate
> it.

You don't.  The MTRR is obsolete.  Modern CPUs use PATs instead.  You
should have no reason to mess with that manually.  It should just work.

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