hi,

i am looking for a hardware setup which will enable me to do
the following with directfb:

* use opengl with double buffering
* sync to the monitor refresh interrupt (using blocking io, no polling)

it is for an experiment related to perception-psychology,
so timing is of utmost importance. it will probably involve
some special purpose (serial port) hardware later.

i want to run the graphics outside of X11 for timing issues. 
X11 and SCHED_FIFO do not mix that well. i tried raw framebuffer,
but since it involves a lot of coordinate transforms i'm looking
into the possibility to use directfb + gl

the system will be bare bones: lowlat linux kernel + experiment app,
so no problems with legacy software i hope.

the graphics requirements are very simple, so an old or cheap
card may be enough.

i have:
* ati rage 128
* matrox G450
* nvidia TNT
* nvidia gforce4 Ti4200

i think all of them have interrupt based sync support.
if necessary, i will buy new hardware.

does anyone have a suggestion about a solution that will work,
or one that hast the most chance to do so?

i.e. i need to get something done, which is quite new to me :)

cheers
tom


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