[linux-audio-dev] DRI + Jack conflict?

[Vincent Touquet]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:32:35PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
>the implementation of DRI by certain video interface drivers means
>that we end up trying to lock the video memory as well, and this tends
>to fail for various reasons.

Hm, that sounds bad.
Does this problem also happen with the open source drivers from dri.sf.net ?
I was just thinking of getting an IBM thinkpad and I might want to change
the model I want based on this.

>its not what to do about this. the most obvious answer is "don't try
>to run real-time software on systems with these video drivers
>installed". i know its not very satisfactory, but its all we have for
>now. 

Too bad :/

v