On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 21:28 -0500, Rob wrote:
On Tue December 13 2005 19:11, Loki Davison
wrote:
opengl use? if you can create, i.e design and
build, a card
with comparable (3D) performance to my nvidia pci-e 6600le
sli, write open source drivers, for around 30 euro, i.e the
price i payed for my nvidia, i'd be very happy to buy one from
you, as would the rest of us. Otherwise i'll stick with my
nvidia.
Lee wasn't suggesting you drop your use of nvidia.... he was
suggesting that if you want proprietary video drivers, and
you're dissatisfied with your machine's realtime performance,
you're either going to have to lobby nvidia (or ati) to make
their stuff work with realtime kernels, since they have access
to their code and the kernel guys don't, or you're going to have
to suck it up.
i don't know anything about the ATI drivers, but the nvidia ones work
fine on an RT kernel. they provide a stub/wrapper that is recompiled as
part of driver installation. hence, the actual driver interface is
always built against your actual kernel, but it just proxies into the
real code. obviously, they have to have a driver for a kernel close to
the one that you applied the RT patch to, but this so far has not been a
problem.
I'm running the latest NVIDIA driver on an Athlon 64 with the FC4
planet-core-edge kernel with no problems at all.
--
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The Fuzzy Dice
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