6 Apr
2011
6 Apr
'11
12:54 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens(a)ladisch.de> wrote:
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?
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.