Re: trident noise

2002-08-20 Thread Thatcher Ulrich
On Aug 21, 2002 at 12:11 +0200, Karl Hammar wrote: > > I have the same motherboard with their fanless 533MHz processor. > The system has the problem that switching to text console and back > (c-a-f1, a-f9) makes the screen dark (as if it was off), and after > a little fiddling trying different opt

Re: trident noise

2002-08-20 Thread Karl Hammar
> > 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 percen

Re: trident noise

2002-08-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 05:27:53PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > 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 si

Re: trident noise

2002-08-15 Thread Russell Neches
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 inexpen

Re: trident noise

2002-08-15 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> 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 wro

Re: trident noise

2002-08-14 Thread Russell Neches
That sounds like the problem (more or less), but I don't know how it could have been turned on by default. I'll give it a try. Russell Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 04:01:36PM -0400, Russell Neches wrote: > > > > Hey there -- > > > > I've recently been tink

Re: trident noise

2002-08-14 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 04:01:36PM -0400, Russell Neches wrote: > > Hey there -- > > I've recently been tinkering with VIA's EPIA motherboard and the > various gizmos integrated into VIA's "super southbridge" chip. > Basically everything is crammed into this chip: > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Te

trident noise

2002-08-13 Thread Russell Neches
Hey there -- I've recently been tinkering with VIA's EPIA motherboard and the various gizmos integrated into VIA's "super southbridge" chip. Basically everything is crammed into this chip: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Techn