[PD] freeze

[Tom Schouten]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:51:06AM +0200, Aymeric wrote:
> > i think this is a problem with 'pd -rt' and nvidia drivers.
> > i have freezing windows all the time when i combine the two,
> > both gem and 3dp and even in wvvw.
> 
> not only nvidia drivers, ati fglrx drivers too.
>

i didn't try yet, but maybe this can be fixed with 
running X and the window manager as rt processes too. 
so if you got a big red reset button within arms length...

see here:
http://www2.fsmlabs.com/mailing_list/rtl.w5archive/0101/msg00147.html

and use the rt util mentioned or this one:
http://zwizwa.fartit.com/pd/tools/setrt-0.1.tar.gz

in the thread a watchdog process is suggested to guard this all a bit.