[mythtv-users] My HDTV woes

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Apr 3 17:13:08 UTC 2006


On Apr 3, 2006, at 10:02 AM, leland sindt wrote:

>
>>  Also if you have an nVidia or ATI card lower the pci
>> latency timer to 60 with setpci (see also lspci). My command:
>>   setpci -v -s 01:00.0 latency_timer=60
> Daniel,
>
> Can you provide some justification/evidence for changing the latency
> timer for your nVidia card?  What have you seen to show that it  
> does not
> need the full 'ff' value?
>
I'd be curious about this too. I have never seen a system where the  
graphics card was not given as much bandwidth as possible.

OTOH, if you are not experiencing problems with graphics, then I  
suppose more effective bandwidth available for the disk and capture  
subsystems would be a good thing.


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