From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy Subject: Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:47:08 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40618A54.5050709@sancharnet.in> References: <405FAC4A.1000609@sancharnet.in> <5.1.0.14.1.20040322210149.01fdd960@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20040323094003.01fc9810@celine> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: Ray Olszewski Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Ray Olszewski wrote: > I haven't myself switched to the 2.6.x kernel series yet, but I have > seen reports warning of problems with some external add-in modules, > including the nvidia drivers ... showing up as high CPU loads caused, > I think, by context switching not being handled efficiently. (Also > problems with ivtv and lirc, if memory serves, and maybe some of the > wlan stuff.) > > Caution ... or, better, patience, as this stuff will certainly get > worked out ... *may* be indicated here. > > Joy - do you actually have an nvidia framebudffer module running with > 2.6.x? yes, have been using the 2.6 series almost as soon as it was released and used to use the patches from minion.de until the 5336 nvidia driver was released. I don't exactly understand your Q (too hitech for me ;-) however I figure you are asking me about it's (kernel's) performance under heavy loads. well I ran 3 instances of xine playing (what else) 'Highway Star' at the same time on KDE which I think should put the cpu under load, Kde being the major load :) with no problems. this was . 2.6.1or .2 maybe........... > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs