On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> 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?
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
but I haven't been able to prove it helps with my GTX465.
> 2) does nouveau have any way to do this or does it not matter
> because of the way it
> handles interrupts?
If you have it loaded then look at
modinfo nouveau
to see if there's an option to play with.
HTH,
Mark
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