On 12/14/05, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 21:28 -0500, Rob wrote: > > On Tue December 13 2005 19:11, Loki Davison wrote: > > > opengl use? if you can create, i.e design and build, a card > > > with comparable (3D) performance to my nvidia pci-e 6600le > > > sli, write open source drivers, for around 30 euro, i.e the > > > price i payed for my nvidia, i'd be very happy to buy one from > > > you, as would the rest of us. Otherwise i'll stick with my > > > nvidia. > > > > Lee wasn't suggesting you drop your use of nvidia.... he was > > suggesting that if you want proprietary video drivers, and > > you're dissatisfied with your machine's realtime performance, > > you're either going to have to lobby nvidia (or ati) to make > > their stuff work with realtime kernels, since they have access > > to their code and the kernel guys don't, or you're going to have > > to suck it up. > > i don't know anything about the ATI drivers, but the nvidia ones work > fine on an RT kernel. they provide a stub/wrapper that is recompiled as > part of driver installation. hence, the actual driver interface is > always built against your actual kernel, but it just proxies into the > real code. obviously, they have to have a driver for a kernel close to > the one that you applied the RT patch to, but this so far has not been a > problem. > > --p > > yeah, i use ingos RT, 64 bit and the nvidia 64 bit drivers. Though actually the one i'm using now isn't 100% stable. Loki
