On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:23:58 +0200 "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On a recent Dell laptop, what would cause DVD playback to be very choppy? combined mode ATA or unsupported video are the probable causes. What video driver is being used and what do your boot messages to do with disks look like ("dmesg" in a terminal window)