On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 18:50, John Check wrote: > On Saturday 07 August 2004 06:30 pm, Lee Revell wrote: > > I recommend disabling all hardware video acceleration when tuning a > > system for low latency (set Option "NoAccel" and commend out the "dri" > > line). This will prevent X from interacting directly with your hardware > > - it is complicated enough when only the kernel can access hardware. > > Then, once you get that working, re-enable 2D acceleration, then DRI/3D > > acceleration, if these do not cause problems. This will make it much > > easier to get the problematic video drivers fixed. > > > > Lee > > Definitely a good strategy, but nobody is going to take a system with no > video acceleration seriously. > Yes, of course this is not a long term solution. The point is to get the buggy video drivers fixed (this is open source after all), in order to do that we need to be able to say 'when i enable DRI with $FOO driver, I get xruns, and these go away when I disable it'. Lee
