7 Aug
2004
7 Aug
'04
8:35 p.m.
On Saturday 07 August 2004 07:17 pm, Lee Revell wrote:
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 18:50, John Check wrote:
Indeed. I've had to do the process of elimination thing to get people to
own up to problems, so I appreciate that.
Just FYI and directed to the list at large; When I say things like that, it's
not meant personally.
On Saturday 07 August 2004 06:30 pm, Lee Revell
wrote:
Yes, of course this is not a long term solution. The point is to get
the buggy video drivers fixed (this is open source after all), in order
to do that we need to be able to say 'when i enable DRI with $FOO
driver, I get xruns, and these go away when I disable it'. I recommend disabling all hardware video
acceleration when tuning a
system for low latency (set Option "NoAccel" and commend out the
"dri"
line). This will prevent X from interacting directly with your
hardware - it is complicated enough when only the kernel can access
hardware. Then, once you get that working, re-enable 2D acceleration,
then DRI/3D acceleration, if these do not cause problems. This will
make it much easier to get the problematic video drivers fixed.
Lee
Definitely a good strategy, but nobody is going to take a system with no
video acceleration seriously.
Lee