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[Andy Burns]

Build System wrote:

> libdrm-2.0-1
> ------------
> * Wed Nov 30 2005 Mike A. Harris <mharris at redhat.com> 2.0-1
> - Updated libdrm to version 2.0 from dri.sf.net.  This is an ABI incompatible
>   release, meaning everything linked to it needs to be recompiled.

Just refreshed to today's rawhide and the X11R7rc3 updates seem to have
had a very positive effect on xine (from livna FC5t1 repo) :-)

Beforehand for DVD playback it was eating >90% CPU and dropping *way*
too many frames, now playback is very smooth and CPU usage down to
25-30% of a P4 3GHz, need to try DVB-T playback now ...

Still some audio crackle, which I'd previously put down to CPU overload,
now it appears it must be something else, I'll try to track it down, but
rhythmbox is happy, so ALSA itself seems OK.

I'm using xorg drivers, I might try to persuade the ATI binary driver to
install just to see how it runs now, fxlrx didn't seem to offer any
improvement over radeon last time I tried, took a few kludges to make it
happy with modular xorg.