[linux-audio-user] Graphics card an realtime performance

[Gerrit Niestijl]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:09:57PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:54 +0100, Gerrit Niestijl wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Could a better graphics card result in better realtime performance? I can
> > get a good realtime performance on my box (buffersize 64 and less) but
> > when using X some display activity seems to cause xruns. E.g sooperlooper
> > is far more usable without it's gui.
> > 
> > This is on a pentium3 600Mhz PC, running gentoo kernel 2.6.14 with rt22
> > patch applied. I also prioritize the irq's as documented on this list. The
> > graphics card is a Nvidia Vanta LT with 16 Mb memory.
> 
> Are you using the proprietary Nvidia driver?

No, i used to but they don't support my card anymore.


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gerrit