Yeah, I saw that.  I may need to back that out and put in the open source
driver.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:05:35PM -0800, Justin Hart wrote:
> > Oh, Lennart.  Commodity hardware.  Core i7, 32G RAM, Ubuntu 14.04, kernel
> > as described above, Linux 3.14.17 w/ Xenomai 2.6.4 with the packaged
> Adeos
> > patch.  The only thing interesting about the configuration that I thought
> > might be contributing to issues is running the CUDA driver.  I stumbled
> > onto the hypothesis that something was wrong with the kernel because I
> was
> > having rendering issues.  Backing out CUDA appeared to resolve the
> issues,
> > but I think that it's my software doing something *really* boneheaded.  I
> > have a small GUI that I wrote that displays the current pose of the
> arm.  I
> > think that I'm refreshing a set of gtk_entries with gtk_entry_set_text
> > every time the arm's position is updated.  I *should* be doing this in a
> > GTK worker that just updates it every time it goes through gtk_main_loop.
> > I think that what I'm doing is simply giving too many events to the
> > x-server.  I first noticed this because there was some latency in the
> arm's
> > responsiveness.
> >
> > Altering it to test this should be easy enough, though.
>
> Well as was mentioned recently on the list, if you use the nvidia kernel
> modules, then you really can not expect xenomai/ipipe to work properly,
> because you can't fix what the binary blob from nvidia does, and it
> could easily mess up interrupt handling and make the realtime stop
> being realtime.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
>
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