Re: [linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-09 Thread Vincent Touquet
Do you know if these patches will make it into the mainline kernel ? I don't know what objections there could be to a conditional_reschedule() ? regards Vincent On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 11:00:53PM +0300, Jussi Laako wrote: Yes, I have made some lowlatency additions to Matrox and ATI drivers. At

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-09 Thread Jussi Laako
Vincent Touquet wrote: Do you know if these patches will make it into the mainline kernel ? I offered those to Andrew Morton months ago. I think it's up to him to decide, Andrew? I don't know what objections there could be to a conditional_reschedule() ? I have read the DRM driver

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-09 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
I've been running kernel with the DRM patches since January and it has been rock solid. However my machines are UP only, so if someone happens to be running kernel with the patches on SMP machine I would like to know if it works irl. I've been using them with a Radeon card for about a month

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Andrew Morton hat gesagt: // Andrew Morton wrote: You may be getting bitten by this; dunno. Some xfree drivers have an option to not use this (mis)feature. Try adding Option PciRetry to the Device section of your XF86Config file. Should this be: Option PciRetry on or

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-06 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
> Running latencytest I have found a quite bad behaviour with the high > X11 load test when the X server has the DRI module loaded and active. > > Is anyone there using DRI and lowlatency-patch at the same time? > > Have you experienced this kind of problems? There are a couple of patches that

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-06 Thread Kristian Peters
Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should this be: Option PciRetry on or Option PciRetry off ? Just a plain Option PciRetry without any on or Off. But another question... That option completely screws my screen and I'm unable to kill X. Only the sysrq keys

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi, Kristian Peters hat gesagt: // Kristian Peters wrote: Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should this be: Option PciRetry on or Option PciRetry off ? Just a plain Option PciRetry without any on or Off. Maybe it's card dependent. I use the mga-driver

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi again, Kristian Peters hat gesagt: // Kristian Peters wrote: Just a plain Option PciRetry without any on or Off. Please forget my previous mail. No boolean defaults to TRUE: XF86Config(5x): Boolean options may optionally have a value specified. When no value is

[linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-05 Thread Enrique Robledo Arnuncio
Hi! Running latencytest I have found a quite bad behaviour with the high X11 load test when the X server has the DRI module loaded and active. Is anyone there using DRI and lowlatency-patch at the same time? Have you experienced this kind of problems? Any known solution? I use OpenGL for

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-05 Thread Bob Ham
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 18:40, Enrique Robledo Arnuncio wrote: * XFree86 version: 4.1.0.1 ** mga driver * G. Card: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04) Is that the matrox driver, or the xfree86 driver? I always use the (open source, I might add for all you nvidia owners) matrox

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Enrique Robledo Arnuncio wrote: ... fragment latency = 2.902494 ms cpu latency = 2.321995 ms 3.3ms ( 0)| 1MS num_time_samples=21477 num_times_within_1ms=21477 factor=100.00 2MS num_time_samples=21477 num_times_within_2ms=21477 factor=100.00 Or in other words, clean

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-05 Thread Enrique Robledo Arnuncio
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:10:56PM +0100, Bob Ham wrote: On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 18:40, Enrique Robledo Arnuncio wrote: ** mga driver Is that the matrox driver, or the xfree86 driver? I always use the (open source, I might add for all you nvidia owners) matrox drivers. The xfree86

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-05 Thread Enrique Robledo Arnuncio
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:42:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: A number of PCI video cards hang onto the PCI bus for outrageous amounts of time. It gives better benchmarks in Windows magazines. You may be getting bitten by this; dunno. Some xfree drivers have an option to not use this

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Enrique Robledo Arnuncio wrote: ... diff -urN linux-2.4.19-pre7/drivers/char/drm/mga_dma.c linux-2.4.19-pre7-jl1-ll/drivers/char/drm/mga_dma.c --- linux-2.4.19-pre7/drivers/char/drm/mga_dma.cWed Aug 8 19:42:15 2001 +++ linux-2.4.19-pre7-jl1-ll/drivers/char/drm/mga_dma.c Mon Apr 29