On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 12:35:02PM +0100, SUDAKO wrote: > I am in sarge, with a s3 savage 3d card. > > I have the same flicker problem with debian package. > > I found out that XFree86 4.3.0 official (unpatched) binaries, which > include savage driver version 1.1.20 work well. > > I can even start X with Debian driver (flickering), then change > savage_drv.o from debian to Xfree's one, then start another X session in > :1, then kill the session in :1, restore original savage_drv.o, then > switch to :0 and the flickering disappears completely. From now until i > reboot the machine there will be no flicker, even if i restart X debian > version again. > > I also have problems with debian driver when trying to set up 16-bit > mode (the monitor complais about extreme high frequency 160Hz, but > XF86Config-4 should prevent it to go avobe 90 Hz). In our 4.3.0 packages, which are now available in 'experimental', we include the latest version of the Savage driver (1.1.27t), which should fix your problem. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> http://www.kde.org - http://www.debian.org - http://www.xwin.org "Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement" -- Havoc Pennington, gnome-list
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