I noticed the What's New stuff for xscreensaver here: http://tinyurl.com/jjjw3
The relevant fix that caught my eye was this, for 4.24 (Feb 8, 2006): Backed out a DPMS-related patch that cause desktop flickering with some X servers. Douglas Andrade wrote: > Interesting, i would never guess by your description that it was a > xscreensaver problem. > Great that it is solved. > > On 5/17/06, Ralph Alvy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 turns out to be known problem with xscreensaver 4.23. Upgrading to >> 4.24 >> solves it on my SiS box. A new Arch build for xscreensaver should appear >> soon, with the newer version. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> arch mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch >> _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
