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shit, I guess we have to make our software work there" rather than "wow,
Linux will give us a better product". Now, how to turn the vendor around is
the trick but my feeling is that if you can do the "political part" to get
them interested, there is a lot of free help available on this list to help
them solve their problems. And, of course, the win-win is another product
really suppoted by Linux.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Mathew D. Watson
<watson at visiongate3d.com>wrote:

> I was all excited when I saw Rob's posting. ... Unfortunately, it didn't
> make a difference. The default max frequency on my system was 64. Increasing
> it to 1024, or reducing it to 30, made no difference in the camera's
> performance.
>
> Thank you very much for the suggestion. I appreciate it.
>
> Mat
>
>
>
>  Did you try changing the RTC max user frequency values?
>>
>>   Nice call!  My money is on Rob's RTC frequency fix...
>>
>> --Derek
>>
>> Rob Smith wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Mathew D. Watson
>>> <watson at visiongate3d.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> There is a large performance difference between running the camera app
>>>> as
>>>> root and running the app at 30 fsp and as a regular user, at a -20 nice
>>>> value, at 10 fps. The fraction of corrupted images drops by dramatically
>>>> (a
>>>> factor of a 1000 IIRC) when running as root.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Did you try changing the RTC max user frequency values?
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frame_display_timing#Adjusting_the_RTC_Interrupt_Frequency
>>>
>>> That's a fairly big difference for users vs root out of the box.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>


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