Choppy dvd playback after upgrade to current
 

I was running Slackware 9.1 on a Dell P3 laptop with Ati 128 screen. I can only get it to run in Vesa mode but thats fine.

Anyway, I let the kids watch DVDs on it in the car on long trips and have been doing so for months. Movies play fine and are smooth. Last night, I decided to upgrade it to the current directory. It went w/o a hitch and updated perfectly. I decided to test gxine real quick and popped in Dumb and Dumber for a test movie. The video was choppy and I got an error that said xine was dropping too many packets because my machine was too slow. I checked hdparm and saw that dma was enabled. DMA = 1

It didn't have this problem prior to upgrading to current. My question is this, I dont mind reinstalling to get it back to 9.1 but am curious as to what could have caused it? Is current built for faster machines than my P3. I will stick with the 2.4.22 kernel now but am still curuis as heck.

Thanks for any input.

have you tried watching it with a decent player? http://mplayerhq.hu and man i'd never settle for vesa.... no wonder it's not well...

it is diffucult to say why as you don't give any detail of what you actually upgraded.
I had a similar problem on my laptop with an ATI igp 340 graphic chipset that was not able to play dvds decently with the vesa driver.
That is the reason why I upgraded to xfree86 4.4.0 that provide a good driver for such chipset.
May be you could fix your problem the same way.
Not sure for ATI 128, but new Xfree has many new drivers for ATI chipsets.
Ciao