On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 00:19 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > When I play a video DVD the modem quits doing whatever it's doing. > Strange. I'm running 32bit FC7 on a system with a 64bit AMD 3200 and 2 > gigs of memory. Both Xine and VLC exhibit the same behavior. I just > tried gmplayer and it does the same thing, but the sound has static. > That's weird, it never has before. Something else to fix. Sound on Xine > or VLC is perfect. Uh, are the modem and the IDE port the DVD sharing an IRQ or something? > So, how could playing a DVD foul up the modem? Is there some type of > streaming to the network that could grab the serial line or the ppp > session?? I can think of two things at least...the sharing of an IRQ or some other hardware semaphore or simply the load put on the CPU by a soft modem. However, with an AMD 3200, I don't think that's the issue. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - 500: Internal Fortune Cookie Error - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
