[LAU] xruns from GeForce 7300 GS video card

[Brad Fuller]

David Baron wrote:
> On Thursday 19 April 2007, Brad Fuller wrote:
>   
>> Geoff Beasley wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thursday 19 April 2007 16:06:31 Florian Schmidt wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Thursday 19 April 2007, Geoff Beasley wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> nvdia proprietary drivers work perfectly.
>>>>>           
>>>> haha, that's quite a bland statement.. It's always good to try with an
>>>> untainted kernel.
>>>>         
>>> i have never,never,never had any trouble what-so-ever with stable nvidia
>>> drivers. my daw has a triple-head nvidia and the other has a dual.
>>> completely transparent.
>>>
>>> just so there is no grey area here :)
>>>       
>> I've never had problems with the nvidia driver either, until I used the
>> realtime kernel (2.6.20-rt8) and the MX4000. The latest nvidia driver
>> doesn't support this chipset. There is a patch for the rt kernel and the
>> nvidia v9631 drivers (the last version to support the MX4000) but I
>> couldn't get it to work (I didn't have time to try very hard, though.)
>>     
>
> To compile the driver, one needs to either restore the "transitional" #define 
> SA_.... stuff to interrupts.h (the rt8 patch had no business removing them!) 
> or apply a patch to the extracted nvidia sources and then compile that.
>
> What rt8 kernel patch are you referring to and where does one get it?
>   
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