Your system is too slow

[Michael Hennebry]

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Roberto Ragusa wrote:

> Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> Most recently mplayer told me that my system was to slow.
>> It made suggestions that were scrolled
>> off the screen by many cpoies of
>>> AO: [pulse] pa_stream_get_latency() failed: Connection terminated
>>> AO: [pulse] pa_stream_write() failed: Connection terminated.4% 1312 0
>
> As your attention is on the video driver, while these messages are
> related to audio, try if the problem persists with "-nosound".

I'll try that.
Thanks.

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, john wendel wrote:

> On 09/19/2009 07:17 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>
>>> Is there an nvidia driver that allows suspend to
>>> disk and does not experience extreme slowness?
>>
>> More precisely, is there an nvidia driver
>> that does not experience extreme slowness?
>>
>> I've had trouble getting flash to play right
>> either through firefox or through mplayer.
>> Most recently mplayer told me that my system was to slow.
>> It made suggestions that were scrolled
>> off the screen by many cpoies of
>>> AO: [pulse] pa_stream_get_latency() failed: Connection terminated
>>> AO: [pulse] pa_stream_write() failed: Connection terminated.4% 1312 0

> [1] Replace the nouveau driver with the "evil" Nvidia driver

What source would you suggest?
>From what I've read, it matters.
I'm not clear on what is good.
Will I be able to use suspend to disk?

> [2] mplayer "-ao alsa"

This says use alsa for sound?

Thanks.

> I've got an old P4 box with a gforce 7300 running F11 that plays high 
def
> video just fine with the Nvidia driver and "-ao alsa". With the nouveau
> driver and pulse audio the box is unusable for video playback.

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