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

[Steve Harris]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:26:03 +0100, Vincent Touquet wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:31:10AM -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:
> > Machine is an 800 MHz AMD w. 512 MB RAM, system is Planet CCRMA RH 9. 
> >Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I haven't had this 
> >kind of noise problem before now, I'd certainly like to get rid of it, 
> >and I'm willing to try about anything at this point (as long as it 
> >doesn't cost much ;).
> 
> Personally, if I would have to buy a new video card, I'd rather give the 
> money to a knowledgeable hacker for a workaround :)
> 
> I'm not yet sure if the problem will affect me (I think it will though,
> I want to use jack in realtime mode together with accelerated 3D on a
> laptop, which I will get in a few weeks time), but if it does, I'll certainly
> consider forking over some cash to pour in a GPLed solution.

Hear hear. I think that GL accelration is a (potentially) important
optimisation for audio apps - it saves a lot of cache and memory bandwidth
that can be better used number-crunching audio.

Paul is right that its a kludge, but detecting the QT library and
unlocking it doesnt actually look that hard.

- Steve