Your system is too slow

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Tue Sep 22 12:59:51 UTC 2009


On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> 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.

I tried that.
It worked.  No sound of course.

> On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, john wendel wrote:
>
>> On 09/19/2009 07:17 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:

>>> 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

I did that:
Running Transaction
   Installing     : rhpxl-1.12-2.fc11.i586                                   1/7
   Installing     : system-config-display-1.1.3-2.fc11.noarch                2/7
   Installing     : livna-config-display-0.0.23-1.fc11.noarch                3/7
   Installing     : xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.36-1.fc11.i586           4/7
   Installing     : kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686.PAE-185.18.36-1.fc11   5/7
   Installing     : kmod-nvidia-PAE-185.18.36-1.fc11.1.i686                  6/7
   Installing     : xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-185.18.36-1.fc11.i586                7/7

Installed:
   kmod-nvidia-PAE.i686 0:185.18.36-1.fc11.1

Dependency Installed:
   kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686.PAE.i686 0:185.18.36-1.fc11.1
   livna-config-display.noarch 0:0.0.23-1.fc11
   rhpxl.i586 0:1.12-2.fc11
   system-config-display.noarch 0:1.1.3-2.fc11
   xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i586 0:185.18.36-1.fc11
   xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 0:185.18.36-1.fc11

Complete!

>> [2] mplayer "-ao alsa"

I did this, but mplayer still craps out on me.
mplayer -nosound still works, but quietly.

-- 
Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist:   The glass is half full.
Engineer:   The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."




More information about the fedora-list mailing list