[linux-audio-user] Re: The best distro for music creation

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Tue Dec 13 22:06:39 EST 2005


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




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