> > 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 ...
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 options, look as if the horizontal lines are not properly synced and the screen is darker. Blindly trying things: Lowering HorizSync or VertRefresh or setting or clearing NoPciBurst, PciRetry, CyberShadow, or CyberStretch gives me the not synced look. Setting NoAccel, NoMMIO, ShadowFB, or SWcursor to "true" gives you a dark screen (the monitor behaves as if the computer is powered off). Do anyone have any suggestions. I use this as an potential netbooting, no noise, low cost xterminal. Regards, /Karl ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Hammar Aspö Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lilla Aspö 2340 +46 173 140 57 Networks S-742 94 Östhammar +46 18 26 09 00 Computers Sweden +46 10 270 26 67 Consulting -----------------------------------------------------------------------