Re: [rtl] RTLinux & XFree 4.1, nVidia drivers

[Pablo Alvarez <palvarez@bu.edu>]

David Olofson wrote:

> On Monday 03 December 2001 17:31, Stefan Doehla wrote:

> 	2. Some drivers/servers disable IRQs directly using CPU
> 	   instructions (to implement fast sync constructs
> 	   without kernel calls?) - which means that no kernel
> 	   patch can prevent this from affecting RT IRQ latency!
> 	   Don't know if this is still the case with 4.1.x - and
> 	   no one knows for sure what's in those nVidia
> 	   drivers... ;-)

Hi David (and others)

I have an nVidia card, and am just getting ready to load the nVidia drivers 
so I can use glx. Are they particularly noxious and/or hard to make work with 
RTLinux?

Thanks,

Pablo Alvarez