Awesome! That nailed the problem. I didn't realize what I was looking at when I saw this option in the man page. When I first saw this problem, it was a "patch the source or bother your vendor problem."
Thanks to Sven too. Russell Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > for inexpensive hardware. However, as soon as X is loaded and a window > > is perturbed, the sound card goes insane. > > > Now, if I remember my history, PCI video card manufacturers discovered > > at some point that they could lengthen the little bars produced by > > WinBench by a few percent if they wrote blindly to the instruction > > queue on the video card. > > Exactly. > > > I can't imagine that Branden had anything to do with this, so is > > probably an upstream problem. > > Yep. Try adding ``Option "PciRetry" "true"'' to your Device section. > Upstream is trying to be benchmark- rather than user-friendly. > > (To expand on that: the XFree86 4 client scheduler specially optimises > the case of a single client. That only happens when benchmarking.) > > Juliusz
