On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:35:36 -0400 Nkoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/4/07, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Celejar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I use bcm43xx (Debian Sid 2.6.22) with my laptop's (Acer Aspire > > > 3690-2672) 4318. > > > > > > 'lspci -vn': > > > > > >> 06:02.0 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02) > > >> Subsystem: 1468:0312 > > >> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 > > >> Memory at d0002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] > > > > > > It works fairly well, but the screen sometimes flickers rapidly > > > (perhaps dozens of time per second) for several seconds at a time. Is > > > this a known bug? Anything I should try? I do not see this with > > > ndiswrapper. Thanks for your work on the driver > > > > This problem has not previously been reported. Please sent the output of a > > 'cat /proc/interrupts' > > command and the full output from 'lspci -v'. The only idea that comes to > > mind is some sort of > > interference through a shared interrupt. > > > > Anyone else have any ideas? > > > > Larry > > > > I've seen this flicker a handful of times on my laptop (acer ferrari 4006). > I haven't experienced it in probably months now, but it seemed to happen > randomly. I always felt it had something to do with hardware rather than > anything on the OS side since it mostly showed up right after I turned on > the laptop, before the boot menu (grub in my case) came up. I've only seen > it once or twice when the laptop was on (coming out of standby after periods > of inactivity) and it never happened while the broadcom card was in use. > Just my experience.
My experience: I've *only* seen it with the Broadcom card in use (and only with bcm43xx, not ndiswrapper), never at boot, and never with the interface down, as per my response to Larry. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
