On Saturday 07 August 2004 07:17 pm, Lee Revell wrote: > 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'. Indeed. I've had to do the process of elimination thing to get people to own up to problems, so I appreciate that. Just FYI and directed to the list at large; When I say things like that, it's not meant personally. > > Lee
