Greetings ,
 
I Thought would be great to have an "open" topic which we can all talk/ask and share knowledge and opinions & thoughts about this issue
 
I'd like to share with you and that's why i made a start of something like this
 
Here we can discuss about DvD & Games performance not only within X and in general about our box's performance
 
So here we go ...
 
 
Using xine-ogle-mplayer is kinda great watching our movies
 
Playing some games within X which are using 3D ( if out card supports 3D within X )
 
The first thing which we must check is our hardware , then if our hardware's is supported by our distro and the related applications
 
Xine,ogle,mplayer , both of'em in their project sites have some info about the performance.
 
Xine - http://dvd.sourceforge.net/xine-howto/en_GB/html/howto-9.html
 
Ogle - http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/
 
The most important is ( if it's supported ) to enable DMA ( stands for direct memory access ) so we can get a better performance of our combo/dvd/cdrom/cdrw/hdd
 
We can check if it's enabled with
 
hdparm /dev/hda | /dev/hdc
 
And much more which will be discused concerning our problems or thoughts,opinions
 
As for games , we can execute 3Ddiag to get some info and switch to :
 
/usr/X11R6/bin/switch2xf86_glx if it's necessary
 
*16/24bit* within X could cause the non 3D usage and vice versa
 
 
Farewell
 
 
To be continued ...