Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:46:18 +0200 | Subject | Re: PROBLEM:blinking screen in XFree4.x ! | From | Marko Rebrina <> |
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:21:05AM +0200, Daniel Lintjens wrote: > Hi Marko, > Do you have a via chipset ? If so, you stumbled on the via timer bug. Don't
Yes.
> know much about it, but apparently the timer in some situation gives > garbage, causing the screensave of x to kick in. Try disabling the X > screensavers (within gnome/kde usualy), that worked for me. Since kernel
I don't have screensaver!
> 2.4.3 I haven't seen this behavior btw, but I have upgraded so (X, the > kernel, the sblive driver, the bttv driver ...) > I don't know the version of the kernel that adressed this issue, (it > appeared multiple times in the mailing list, and was fixed several times > (appeared under different situations). If nothing works, try not using the > onboard sound and ata100. These apparently trigger the problem.
I don't have onboard sound & ata100
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