Re: nvidia bug or RT bug?

[jordan <triplesquarednine@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the reply, Steven. ( i didn't even think i would get that)

> It's both, but we don't care. Sorry. Seems that the nvidia driver is not
> compatible with some of the changes that -rt has done. One is that you
> can not call spinlocks after disabling preemption. If the nvidia driver
> does this, it will break.

I see. I know how to reproduce this issue, and how to completely avoid
it from affecting me, anyway - so it's not a huge deal. It's only
happened twice, in both circumstances i use using VDPAU with Adobe
flash <sarcasm>surprise, surprise!</sarcasm>, also in both
circumstances my uptime had been several days. ie: it doesn't happen
very often, at all.

I understand why you don't care about nvidia, but if it is a bug in RT
- should it not be fixed? anyways, I will report it to nvidia once i
get a chance to. it would nice if they addressed RT-related problems
in their driver being as some folks do require proper/good 3d
acceleration / real performance / Opengl 4.2 which (obviously) Nouveau
does not provide, nor is it anywhere near providing in the foreseeable
future :\ (not that this is news to anyone who has used them both).

> Bring up the bug with the nvidia rt patch maintainer. That's about all
> I'll say on this matter.

No problem. I know the author of the patch, anyway. I just wanted some
verification, rather than just making my own assumptions.

take care, and thanks again.

jordan