On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 The short answer is you do not need PAE. Your 3GB is within the address range of the "standard" 32-bit kernel. You need to have 4 GB or more in order to trigger a requirement for PAE. Link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
