On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:32:35PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: >the implementation of DRI by certain video interface drivers means >that we end up trying to lock the video memory as well, and this tends >to fail for various reasons.
Hm, that sounds bad. Does this problem also happen with the open source drivers from dri.sf.net ? I was just thinking of getting an IBM thinkpad and I might want to change the model I want based on this. >its not what to do about this. the most obvious answer is "don't try >to run real-time software on systems with these video drivers >installed". i know its not very satisfactory, but its all we have for >now. Too bad :/ v