davidjpenton wrote: > Is it normal for X to generate a lot of visual noise on the screen My old s3virge based card did the same thing. Sometimes I even saw the "sparklies" under MS Windows. It is caused by read errors from the video RAM when building the screen image. This is likely the result of problems with access timing to the VRAM. In my case, the problem could be reduced or eliminated by lowering the dot clock in a modeline statement: Modeline "1152x864" 96 1152 1196 1280 1484 864 872 884 912 However, doing so will reduce your refresh rates. In my case, anything over 90Mhz would start causing problems on my crappy card. You may want to fiddle with any timing options you driver offers "e.g., early_ras_precharge, slow_dram, etc.). My final solution, ironically, was to get a new ATI All-in-Wonder Rage 128 Pro PCI, which fixed all my sparkle problems, allowed for very fast refresh rates, crystal clear higher resolution text as well as better acceleration performance. See ya S3, ;). Good video cards are too cheap these days for us to have to put up with such annoyances. Michael Shell news1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
