9 Jun
2011
9 Jun
'11
11:01 a.m.
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 22:02 -1000, david wrote:
Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
I experienced the same issues regarding to the resolution and the 60 Hz
stroboscope (and a non working mouse wheel for my PS/2 mouse, slow down
Internet for PPPoE etc.) with current debianoid Linux. They drop old
hardware, even if they claim not to do.
Regarding to the monitor, I downgraded X and then I got back the wanted
1152x864@90Hz. The monitor can do better than 90 Hz, debianoid Linux for
my setup can't anymore, but I guess there's no difference between 90 Hz
and > 90 Hz.
I'm using xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2.1.17-3 + depending X packages, it's
from Debian stable, while anything else should be from Debian testing.
For Debian testing there's no nv driver anymore and the nouveau doesn't
work on my machine, when using a kernel-rt.
Perhaps a downgrade will solve the issue on your machine too. 60 Hz
vertically is unhealthy.
-- Ralf
On 06/07/2011 10:27 AM, david wrote:
Well, my experience with non-RT kernels is that on my hardware, they are
not sufficient for real audio use. I just upgraded my desktop machine to
2.6.39, will see how it goes. Audio works, didn't stress it much. Of
course, for some reason, it has decided that my 17" 1280x1024 monitor
only runs 1024x768 at 60hz ... sigh. The last couple of Ubuntu releases have not
included RT kernels because
Ubuntu thinks no one needs one.
more likely, the latest ubuntu releases were based on kernels newer than
the latest available rt tree, which creates a very complicated situation
for distro maintainers.
with 2.6.39, most of the former rt patchset is now in mainline, and the
big kernel lock is gone for good. that means the situation should
improve a lot, and ease the burdon on maintainers of low-latency
optimized packages.