[lug] Video -playing- with Linux

howeljs at grimoire.stortek.com howeljs at grimoire.stortek.com
Wed Jun 27 16:11:46 MDT 2001


Great tip! I love it when I'm in a heated match in Tribes2 and cron 
decides it's time to run updatedb and tripwire.


> I haven't been in this situation, but one thing I know from the audio
> groups is that if you share an interrupt with your audio and other
> devices, or worse, between video card and other devices, you will have
> problems. The number one thing I would check is that any devices your
> presentation will depend upon should have their own irq. It is sometimes
> possible to share irq without problem, but not sharing gives you a lot
> more predictability. Also, turn off cron and anacron daemon during the
> presentation. If you are in RH, you can go to /etc/rc.d/init.d/, and use
> "./crond stop", or "./anacron stop" to disable them until the next
> reboot (or till you give them argument start).
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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  Jeff Howell
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