Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Brian Bergstrom wrote: > [...] >> 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. > > [...] > Thanks a lot!!!! I always had problems with the NVIDIA card sharing the same IRQ with the firewire port (where I have a Saffire) in my notebook (dual core)... Using the propietary driver (which works better for graphics), every time the graphics card was required to use a lot of bandwith, I had a xruns and the desktop turns unresponsive.... But that makes the trick! I just added the option for the module and now both graphics and sound works like a charm, with better distribution of CPUs!!! Thanks again! :) Best regards, Natanael. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
