On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:00 PM, <fons@kokkinizita.net> wrote:
Hello all,
over the past few months I have installed Arch on a number of systems, all of them used for quite intensive audio work (think of systems with > 1000 jack ports). All of them have worked flawlessly, no latency problems even with the standard kernel.
Today I installed one more, on exactly the same HW as the previous one which was something like 6 weeks ago. Main difference is probably kernel 2.6.33 instead of 32.
This system is completely unusable: almost anything 'graphical' - opening or closing windows, changing workspaces, etc. will generate showers of xruns.
Using nouveau's 'no_accel' option solves the xruns, audio is as stable as it has ever been. But the system is again useless - just scrolling an xterm up one line takes a second or so. Nor has using this option been necessary before (all of the previous installs use nouveau).
So has anything changed in nouveau that can explain this ? Any solutions ?
Never heard of similar regression before. Can you try using http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=kernel26-nouveau-git and http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=xf86-video-nouveau-git ? If you still have the same problems with git, you should ask upstream (irc freenode #nouveau or ML http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau) http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage But it would help to have as much precision as possible about what is the latest version of each nouveau component that worked, and what is the first that is bad, i.e. minimizing the regression window. Also note the first item about latency on this page : http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ToDo