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
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