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.
>>
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> 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
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