{"id":22,"date":"2007-10-03T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T14:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/?p=22"},"modified":"2007-10-03T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T14:14:06","slug":"new-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"New Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I got equipped with a shiny new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/content\/products\/productdetails.aspx\/latit_d830\">Lattitude D830<\/a>. It came with a WUXGA display and nVidia&#8217;s latest Quadro NVS 140M monster to fill all those pixels. After having read some installation reports I decided to install <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/GutsyGibbon\">gutsy<\/a> on this machine.<\/p>\n<p>The installation went smoothly and (although I haven&#8217;t done thorough testing) everything seems to run out of the box. Well, except for sound. A common workaround for this is to compile a current alsa-driver snapshot. It didn&#8217;t work for me at first as for the gutsy gibbon the snd-hda-intel module is now being installed in a non-standard position:<br \/>\n<code>\/lib\/modules\/2.6.22-12-generic\/ubuntu\/media<\/code><br \/>\nWhich caused a conflict with my newly installed version. After deleting the ubuntu module sound works, however the volume control does not always behave as expected.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, performance is very nice, however it is really frustrating that even with such a powerful machine it is not possible to play one of Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/guide\/hd\/\">full HD clips<\/a> without frame drops. Unfortunately it seems like we will not be seeing anything from nVidia in terms of hardware acceleration in the near future &#8211; for now I&#8217;m hoping that ffmpeg will introduce multithreading support for h264 decoding some time soon (<a href=\"http:\/\/lists.mplayerhq.hu\/pipermail\/ffmpeg-devel\/2007-September\/035877.html\">this thread<\/a> on ffmpeg-devel looks promising).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I got equipped with a shiny new Lattitude D830. It came with a WUXGA display and nVidia&#8217;s latest Quadro NVS 140M monster to fill all those pixels. After having read some installation reports I decided to install gutsy on this machine. The installation went smoothly and (although I haven&#8217;t done thorough testing) everything seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}