On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:40:31PM +0200, Andreas Kotowicz wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 20:11, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > > been hearing them since. Not sure if it's the video hardware itself > > > making the noise or the power supply. Something like gears probably > > > draws more power than something like tuxracer. > > > > if I run on batteries I still have this noise so it can't be the power > > supply, can it? > > Graphics intensive applications have been known to create noise on the > PCI bus - this is probably what you're hearing. There's a fair bit of > info out on the web if you look into audio related sites. > > IIRC, there are some PCI options you can pass XFree86 that tell it to be > nicer to the PCI bus. Of course, it probably costs performance. > It sounds like you are refering to pci-retry related sound card problems. I don't think he's talking about sound card glitches. I believe he's talking about the machine emitting a high-pitched whine under load. These things tend to be power related as far as I can tell. MArk. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
