On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> I know in the past I heard bad things about the binary proprietary >>> drivers and realtime audio(freezing, xruns, etc). ÂIs this still the >>> case? >> >> Both nvidia's and fglrx's interrupt handlers are evil. ÂHowever, 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). ÂIn the past, there were problems >> with MSI on some chipsets, but nowadays it works. > > clemens, two questions: > > Â1) where does this need to be given to the module? is this a kernel > module option or > Â Â Â a X Window option? /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 but I haven't been able to prove it helps with my GTX465. > Â2) does nouveau have any way to do this or does it not matter > because of the way it > Â Â Â Âhandles interrupts? If you have it loaded then look at modinfo nouveau to see if there's an option to play with. HTH, Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
