> You won't get a lot of help from the open source community if you > insist on loading proprietary kernel modules. ?The FIRST thing you > should do if you're trying to optimize your system is don't load any > binary only kernel modules!!! To be honest, I do not really need the capabilities of the binary driver, but using the nv driver instead causes the fonts to be very huge on my desktop and less colour depth so watching imgaes and gradients isn't as joyful as it can be. The problem on notebooks is that you have no choice in the hardware components :( . But anyway, it's a good hint and I'll try out if latency decreases when switching the nvidia driver off as well as the NIC. Best regards ce