Dear fellow Fedora users, I have a powerful machine with the following specs(smolt profile) http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_7c13bb00-2ebf-42d9-b342-d91f26574bf1 It installed a PAE kernel automatically since it has 3294MB of memory: OS: Fedora release 10 (Cambridge) Default run level: 5 Language: en_US.UTF-8 Platform: i686 BogoMIPS: 4810.90 CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel CPU Model: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Number of CPUs: 4 CPU Speed: 2394 System Memory: 3294 System Swap: 5279 Vendor: System manufacturer System: P5K Deluxe System Version Form factor: desktop Kernel: 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686 SELinux Enabled: True SELinux Policy: targeted SELinux Enforce: Enforcing It was previously running kernel-PAE-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686, and I decided to update to newer kernel before 2.6.29 comes in, waiting for it :), and I did a # yum install kernel kernel-devel kernel-headers and I got new kernel, kernel-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686, but it is not PAE. /boot/grub/grub.conf put this kernel above the other one, but the default=1 instead of default=0. How do I tell yum to install the PAE kernel automatically or do I have to specify yum install kernel-PAE kernel-PAE-devel kernel-PAE-headers when I update to latest kernel? What does the PAE kernel offers or does better than the regular kernel? I tried google, but it does not give me satisfactory answers. I am sorry to bother with an elementary question, but I want to know what is better for my system. I also want to know if I get nvidia driver, how does it fare with PAE kernels?, I play a dvd and I see: ************************************************ **** Your system is too SLOW to play this! **** ************************************************ Possible reasons, problems, workarounds: - Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA. - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start. - Slow video output - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop! - Slow CPU - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts, e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all. - Broken file - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0. - Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc) - Try -cache 8192. - Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file? - Try -nocache. Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips. If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html. [VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available. [VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read [VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv! [VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. [VO_XV] Try -vo x11. .., I have asked for a bit of help and they recommend that I get nvidia driver, I have not used nvidia drivers since Fedora Core 4, but I got good performance back then might help now? I am sorry to ask too many questions, but many on the list have been very helpful and I appreciate your input :) Regards, Antonio -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
