Hi
I'm also seeing the screen noise that you describe. I too have
an integrated S3 Savage chipset and am running Xfree 4.1.0-11
(I also downloaded the appropriate S3 driver from
http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html - savage_drv.o v1.1.20t
as the one supplied with Debian X 4.1 crashed and locked my machine
every time I started X-windows. related to bugs 128125, 111611 and 110974)
Returning to the screen noise specifically my chipset is :
(from lspci -v)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ProSavage PM133 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Holco Enterprise Co, Ltd/Shuttle Computer: Unknown device 0686
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 10
Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [80] AGP version 2.0
But the information I can find on the chipset
http://www.via.com.tw/pdf/productinfo/dspm605brief.pdf
indicates that the chip should have no problem with the resolution....
I am using 16384kB of system memory and the /var/log/Xfree86.0.log
indicates 17 modes found for resolutions up to 1600x1200
I can hardly believe you got a screen resolution to display if the chip
didnt support it perhaps there is another answer ?
Yours
Cormac
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:01:17PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:21:35PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote:
>
> The problem was solved in the meantime.
> It turned out that the graphics chip on my motherboard
> didn't support the 1280x1024 resolution, but the documentation
> didn't mention the supported resolutions and it simply didn't
> even occured to me that it might not. I guess I got spoiled
> by the GeForce's in my other boxes...
>
> Balazs
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >After getting my embeded S3 Savage chipset to run XFree86 4.1.0
> >by downloading the appropriate driver from S3 (see my previos
> >mail a little below) I have now a new problem:
> >
> >During disk operations white noise (like dropout lines, but not through
> >the full screen width) appears to the right of onscreen objects like windows.
> >It's difficult to explain, but it looks like those windows are bleeding
> >to the right for about 5 cm, and the noise is varying.
> >That it occures on disk IO is just a guess, as I can't hear the hard drives,
> >but it usually happens while waiting for something, like Gnome to load.
> >
> >Has anybody some idea, what might cause this, and how to get rid of it?
> >
> >Many thanks for your help in advance!
> >best regards,
> >Balazs
> >
> >
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