nforce nvnet driver note

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 17.01.2004 schrieb Jason Cortezzo um 22:40:
> I just installed Fedora Core 1 on my A7N266-VM nforce2 system.
> 
> I downloaded the nforce drivers from Nvidia.  The package comes with 
> audio, nic, and agp drivers but my video and audio seem to work fine 
> with whatever gets setup during installation of FC.  So, I compiled and 
> installed the nvnet driver for the integrated nic.
> 
> I was having a problem with mouse lag (jerkiness) whenever there was 
> network activity.  It occured both in X and in the the text console.  
> After some research I found that there is a driver option called 
> "optimization" for the nvnet module.  The default setting is "throughput 
> optimization" and the other setting is "CPU optimization".  I found that 
> by switching to "CPU optimization" that the mouse problem went away.
> 
> I added the following line to my /etc/modules.conf file...
> options nvnet optimization=1
> 
> in addition to the line which was already there (added by kudzu, I guess)
> alias eth0 nvnet
> 
> I hope this info is helpful to someone.

Thanks for this information.

It would be interesting if on your system the mouse and the ethernet
card are sharing the same IRQ (cat /proc/interrupts).

Alexander


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