[ltp] Mandrake 9.1/Redhat 9.0

[brianweber4 at attbi.com]

Thanks for the information.

I now have loaded Mandrake 9.1 and Redhat 9.0 on my Thinkpad 380Z.

When in a web browser, when I scroll in Mandrake, I get 'refresh flicker' but 
not in Redhat!

Brian
> I guess its 'mini-preemption' then. To be honest I haven't closely followed 
> the various branches that real time stuff has taken lately in the kernel, its 
> getting a bit too complex to follow... 
> 
> I guess what I was saying is that RH has SOME sort of preemption, which is 
> mainly aimed at improving multi-media and GUI responsiveness. I guess 
> Mandrake slipped that into the 9.1 patch set as well, I didn't notice. I will 
> say this much, in 9.1 on my desktop box XMMS has major problems with dropouts 
> if you do anything at all in KDE, so whatever that patch is doing, its not 
> completely effective (or else there are some crappy video/audio drivers 
> around, which wouldn't surprise me in the least).
> 
> On Monday 07 April 2003 02:44 pm, Buchan Milne wrote:
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> > Tod Harter wrote:
> > > On Saturday 05 April 2003 11:09 am, brianweber4 at attbi.com wrote:
> > >
> > > I think it must relate to what kernel patches are being used. My
> >
> > understanding
> >
> > > is that RedHat is supplying a kernel with preemption support, which is
> >
> > going
> >
> > > to make things more responsive at the front-end. On the flip side its
> >
> > still
> >
> > > not clear that every driver or other kernel component is totally
> >
> > stable in
> >
> > > that configuration (though I guess it must be pretty good or they
> >
> > wouldn't be
> >
> > > doing it).
> >
> > That is innaccurate, to my knowledge RH has never shipped a kernel with
> > full preemtion. Mandrake's stock kernel has the mini-preemtion patch,
> > and there is a kernel-multimedia in Mandrake contrib for 9.1 that has
> > preemtion,low latency and capability support, mainly aimed at doing
> > multimedia work (sound recording, video editing etc).
> >
> > I haven't seen any flickering on my 600X under 9.0 or 9.1.
> >
> > Buchan
> >
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