[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

Frank Thommen wrote:
> 
> The problem was reported for
> 
> 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio 
> (rev a2)
> 
> it seems you're lucky having the MCP61 ;-)

The MCP61 still uses the snd_hda_intel driver, and the upstream ALSA 
'fix' is to blacklist all NVidia chipsets wrt MSI, so it is probably 
still worth trying the work around ...

James Pearson