On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@email-addr-hidden> 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.
clemens, two questions:
1) where does this need to be given to the module? is this a kernel
module option or
a X Window option?
2) does nouveau have any way to do this or does it not matter
because of the way it
handles interrupts?
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