Hartmut Noack wrote: > Cory K. schrieb: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Cory K. <coryisatm@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >>> NOT true. ;) nVidia/ATI drivers in Ubuntu repo work just fine with > -rt. > >> No, unfortunately you didn't read what I said. I didn't say they > >> wouldn't work. I said they are not supported. Please read what you > >> quoted directly above. > > *MANY* new users not familiar with -rt will read "not supported" as I > > can't use the closed drivers with -rt. I've seen it many, many, many > > times on my support ML already. > > I back that - it is important to spread word that stuff like > NVIDIA-Drivers DO work with rt-patched Kernels too if the distro-people > make them run - in Ubuntu Studio it works fine. > > So support/bug reporting for the rt-patches themself is a different > manner but it needs to be spelled out correctly, that there s a major > difference between "not supported" and "does not run". 4 out of 5 > newbies and 2 out of 5 experienced users cannot tell the difference at > first sight because "supported" and "working" is mixed up frequently. Sure. we went through great pains to make sure they worked. Watch out for DKMS. (http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml) It should help the use of proprietary (or otherwise) drivers and kernels. I have to look into it a bit still. -Cory K. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
