16 Dec
2008
16 Dec
'08
12:39 p.m.
Matthias,
Not sure if you meant to send this to only me or whether I got
dropped on the LAU reply. anyway, responding with a copy back to the
list.
I've used the rt-kernel with the OS ATI driver for a long time.
Works fine for me. I run 1280x1024 with my ATI RV300. (Radeon X300
PCIE) I'm not restricted to 800x600.
- Mark
lightning ~ # uname -a
Linux lightning 2.6.24-rt1 #1 PREEMPT RT Tue Feb 5 07:03:44 PST 2008
x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
lightning ~ # lsmod | grep radeon
radeon 118944 2
drm 85720 3 radeon
lightning ~ # xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 400 x 300, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1280x1024 75.0* 60.0
1024x768 75.0 70.0 60.0
800x600 75.0 72.0 60.0 56.0
640x480 75.0 73.0 60.0
1280x960 60.0
1152x864 75.0
1152x768 55.0
832x624 75.0
416x312 75.0
400x300 75.0 72.0 60.0
lightning ~ #
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Matthias Schönborn <mbs1303(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 17:31 -0800 schrieb Mark
Knecht:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Matthias
Schönborn <mbs1303(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Well I suspected that, they even purposely removed the fglrx modules
from linux-restricted-modules-rt - Then there's no fix, I guess... The
only reason I installed this driver is, that otherwise I'm not able to
get a resolution higher than 800x600. I'd be much happier if I could use
the open source driver ati / radeon, but so far I had no success in
doing so. I don't need hardware acceleration, I just want to be able to
use something higher than 800x600, preferably 1400x1050...
So, new question: Is there anybody on this list who uses the open ati
driver (xserver-xorg-video-radeon, Driver "radeon" in xorg.conf) with
linux-rt? Anyone?
Matthias
Well, the day before yesterday I built the
fglrx-modules for linux-rt,
but now each time I try to use ardour it disconnects after a few minutes
with the message that jack disconnected ardour for not being fast
enough. Each time my whole system hangs for a few seconds, and cpu load
is reported to be "e+02", e.g. 100% in qjackctl. Now dmesg tells me:
There are reasons the rt-kernel developers tell us not to use the ATI
closed source driver. I suspect the problems you are seeing fall
pretty much squarely in that domain. The fglrx driver is not (as far
as we know) designed to be real-time safe. No one can tell you what
it's doing internally that might cause a time delay and kick out
Ardour, but it seems to be doing that.
I'm curious as to why are you interested in using this driver on a
platform running Ardour. Is this machine dual-purpose? I.e. - is audio
a part time thing and you also do gaming, etc.? If you must do gaming
I think you're better off to go with NVidia. I've got both here and
have fewer problems with NVidia, but that's just my experience.
Good luck,
Mark