On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Colin Law wrote: > I currently have and ATI Rage XL using the 'ati' driver of XFree86 4.1 > under debian. Everything looks fine, however, when i drag a window, or > move a scroll bar i get a 'zipping' or 'chopping' effect of the sound. > From what i have read within ALSA documentation, this may be caused by > the graphics card making excessive use of the pci bus. There is also > mention of a pci_retry option within XF86Config-4 that may be used to > help this situation. This pci_retry option does not seem to be supported > by the 'ati' driver.
> 1) Is there a similar option for use with the 'ati' driver? No, because such an option isn't needed. > 2) if not, Is there another work-around? There is no workaround (in 4.1). However, there is a bug in the 4.2 and previous drivers that causes the adapter to disable bus timeouts. This bug has since been corrected. My suggestion to you is to compile from sources available through http://xfree86.org/cvs. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
