[LAU] Nouveau driver on audio systems

[Tim Blechmann]

> On some systems 'nouveau' seems to work really well, on some
> others it produced lots of xruns (using a moderate jack period
> size of 256) which went away when I replaced 'nouveau' by the
> older 'nv'. I did not try the proprietary driver from Nvidia,
> AFAIK it has latency problems as well.

while i heard rumors about latency problems of the proprietary nvidia 
driver, i did not experience any latency issues. when i did some histograms 
for the multicore signal processing engine of supernova on my nehalem 
workstation, i was measuring a maximum jitter of about 10 microseconds. 
unless you don't want to use the proprietary nvidia driver for political 
reasons, it is fine to run it for low-latency applications ... but testing 
it is probably better than relying on personal opinions ...

tim

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