On Monday, February 18, 2002, at 02:12 PM, Danny Maupin wrote:

> We have changed to a 640x480 active display 16Bpp from a 640x480 passive
> display 8Bpp.
> I am now getting screen flicker when using PCMCIA cards (Network cards).

You haven't explicitly said so, but I'm assuming your design is based on 
the SA-11x0 processor, and that you are using the integrated LCD 
controller.

I suspect the only way you're going to be truly happy with 640x480 @ 
16bpp (assuming 60Hz) is to ditch the LCD controller and go with a 
graphics accelerator device. On Spot, I've tried all manner of 
foolishness (control registers, overclocking, software changes to the 
ISA emulation routines to dodge the PCMCIA/LCD DMA priority inversion 
bug). In the end, we still see jitter when the NIC gets going.

We finally gave up and are respinning the design with an MQ200. I guess 
we'll know in a few weeks whether this is indeed the silver bullet. =)

-jd


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