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Posted: Sep. 08 2004,23:25 QUOTE

Hi all.  I have just started using DSL and I have to say, I am very impressed! Good work.  AND withing 8 hours of falling for it, I converted a debian guru to DSL over a couple of rye and gingers.  It makes my life so easy.  Except....

Here's my setup
I am trying to put together a Linux demo model that highlights how great linux can be with thje stuff that ain the cats p-j's
It must have video, audio, be fast with minimal memory and an old cpu ie pentium 11, 111 amd k6
what's inside:
IBM Aptiva 2170 model 19U (if you go to ibm.com and enter this you will find the base spcs of this box).
amd k6 450 3dnow.  
---> I read somewhere that mplayer likes sse and mmx...
128mb + 64 MB sdram (pc133)
How can I get MPlayer to work under this condition? or is there another dsl package that I can use?

2) I am having a reral pain trying to get a commmon ms wheel mouse to start.
the USB mouse works great! but if I run the live disk with the PS2 mouse, I suffer from an xserver failure and it won't load.  I can reconfigure manually, and it loads, but the mouse just doesn't work.  However, the same mouse in a separate machine works just fine.  All I am left with is manual mouseconfig.  Tried all the combinations I could think of and not one works.  All I am left with is a) I am an idiot and this is a simple problem someone else had, b) the ps2 connector is busted (but the keybvoard lights up when it is plugged into it)
HELP!
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Posted: Sep. 09 2004,01:25 QUOTE

1) Try xine.dsl  It is also a video player.

2) If have problems with an old 2-button Microsoft Mouse (no scroll wheel). The Xserver has a mouse autodetection routine that chokes on this mouse. It will keep hopping from protocol to protocol and the mouse never works.

I have tried to fix this bug by recompiling the source code and changing a few lines but I am not a programmer and know even less about mouse protocols so I gave up and bought a cheap mouse ($3) with a scroll wheel that works fine.
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Posted: Sep. 09 2004,15:38 QUOTE

I tried xine but I think that the issue is the embedded video memory (shares only 8 megs max).  A PCI video card might fix this (no agp slot in this IBM bad boy). xine drops too many frames...
anyways, the mouse is a standard MS 3 button wheel mouse that totally befuddles the autodetection on the IBM but not on the home made box.  I will try xine on it to see what happens as it has an intel i740 video card. we shall see.
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Posted: Sep. 10 2004,21:55 QUOTE

Uh-oh

Intel integrated graphics systems are troublesome.  It may work with DSL xvesa server, or it may work with an intel frame buffer, or it may just not work at all.

I know that Intel graphics "overlay" support is very bad so you may have trouble if you use a video player that uses an overlay window.  This is a hardware problem that affects media players in both Linux and MSWindows.

Good Luck.
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