10 Feb
2004
10 Feb
'04
7:19 a.m.
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