Whoah I have the same problem at work with a box. IIRC that too was a SiS graphics chipset (onboard)
Travis Willard wrote: > Ralph Alvy wrote: >> Ralph Alvy wrote: >> >> >>> I notice that, unlike other Linux installations I have, Arch Current >>> flickers quite a lot on my new SiS 661 onboard video box. I'm not sure how >>> to fix this. I have exactly the same xorg settings (as far as I can tell) >>> that are in place with my other Linux installations on this same box, but >>> only Arch Current has this problem. I even downloaded the latest SiS video >>> driver from the net just in case the one supplied by Arch's package was >>> old. >>> >>> The other installations that have no problem on this box are Mepis 6.0 >>> Beta 1, Kubuntu 5.10, and CentOS 4.3. And my Mepis installation uses >>> Xorg7, like Arch does. >>> >>> I use the stock Arch kernel26, however I even tried recompiling it with >>> SiS support (the stock doesn't have that), and it still flickers quite a >>> bit. >>> >> This problem is so bad, I have stopped using Arch Current on my SiS box, >> using it only only my i810 box. I just can't imagine why only Arch has the >> problem on my SiS box. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> arch mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch >> >> >> > > I had this exact problem with a machine at work with a SiS onboard card > - inside X, the video would flicker like nobody's business whenever I > typed or moved the mouse. If I did nothing, the screen was fine. My > solution was to get a Matrox agp card and use that. :P (ie. I couldn't > fix it.) > > -- Cerebral > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
