Re: Screen noise on disk IO
Hi,
The document in your link is about the VT8605 NorthBridge.
It seems that my motherboard has a VT8604 NorthBridge,
allthough I'm not sure it makes any difference.
BTW, congratulations, I don't know how you managed to find
that document on their site. I've been following links for
hours trying to locate some information without much success.
Anyway, on the following page under the 'ProSavage Display Driver
ver 1.1' section it seems they go only until 1024x768:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/Solutions/wince.jsp
regards,
Balazs
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:32:10PM -0500, Cormac McGuinness wrote:
>Hi
>
>I'm also seeing the screen noise that you describe. I too have
>an integrated S3 Savage chipset and am running Xfree 4.1.0-11
>(I also downloaded the appropriate S3 driver from
>http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html - savage_drv.o v1.1.20t
>as the one supplied with Debian X 4.1 crashed and locked my machine
>every time I started X-windows. related to bugs 128125, 111611 and 110974)
>
>Returning to the screen noise specifically my chipset is :
>
>(from lspci -v)
>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ProSavage PM133 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: Holco Enterprise Co, Ltd/Shuttle Computer: Unknown device 0686
> Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 10
> Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
> Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
> Capabilities: [80] AGP version 2.0
>
>But the information I can find on the chipset
>http://www.via.com.tw/pdf/productinfo/dspm605brief.pdf
>indicates that the chip should have no problem with the resolution....
>
>I am using 16384kB of system memory and the /var/log/Xfree86.0.log
>indicates 17 modes found for resolutions up to 1600x1200
>
>I can hardly believe you got a screen resolution to display if the chip
>didnt support it perhaps there is another answer ?
>
>Yours
>Cormac
>
>
>On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:01:17PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote:
>> 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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