Re: Screen noise on disk IO
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:21:35PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote:
The problem was solved in the meantime.
It turned out that the graphics chip on my motherboard
didn't support the 1280x1024 resolution, but the documentation
didn't mention the supported resolutions and it simply didn't
even occured to me that it might not. I guess I got spoiled
by the GeForce's in my other boxes...
Balazs
>Hi,
>
>After getting my embeded S3 Savage chipset to run XFree86 4.1.0
>by downloading the appropriate driver from S3 (see my previos
>mail a little below) I have now a new problem:
>
>During disk operations white noise (like dropout lines, but not through
>the full screen width) appears to the right of onscreen objects like windows.
>It's difficult to explain, but it looks like those windows are bleeding
>to the right for about 5 cm, and the noise is varying.
>That it occures on disk IO is just a guess, as I can't hear the hard drives,
>but it usually happens while waiting for something, like Gnome to load.
>
>Has anybody some idea, what might cause this, and how to get rid of it?
>
>Many thanks for your help in advance!
>best regards,
>Balazs
>
>
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