On 12/14/05, Jan Depner <eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 22:06 -0500, Paul Davis 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. > > > > I'm running the latest NVIDIA driver on an Athlon 64 with the FC4 > planet-core-edge kernel with no problems at all. > stability isn't great here with mandriva multimedia kernel,or self compiled RT kernel, though actually the only problem i've had is playing movies, where after around 20 mins to half an hour of playing it locks up hard. I think it's something to do with power saving, but it doesn't do it if i use sdl instead of xv.... no idea why. So i've found a work around but not a solution. I use same kernel for music and games. Loki
