Brian Bergstrom wrote: > 1. I am researching to build a new system here and need to make the > video decision of NVidia or ATI. My goal is to be able to run 3d games > and do my audio work on the same linux installation if possible. AFAIK the proprietary nVidia video driver still works a bit better than the AMD one. > I know in the past I heard bad things about the binary proprietary > drivers and realtime audio(freezing, xruns, etc). Is this still the > case? Both nvidia's and fglrx's interrupt handlers are evil. However, you should be able to minimize their effects on the rest of the system by using a multi-core CPU (not that you could avoid this nowadays) and message-signaled interrupts (the nvidia driver needs the module option "NVreg_EnableMSI=1" to enable them). In the past, there were problems with MSI on some chipsets, but nowadays it works. > recommendations? A nVidia card, and a modern chipset (i.e., not nVidia). > composting window managers ^^^^^^^^^^ It seems I haven't kept up with the latest advances in desktop technology. How does this work? ;-) Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
