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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:46:18 +0200
To: Daniel Lintjens <daniel.lintjens@tasking.com>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM:blinking screen in XFree4.x !
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From: Marko Rebrina <mrebrina@jagor.srce.hr>
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:21:05AM +0200, Daniel Lintjens wrote:
> Hi Marko,
> Do you have a via chipset ? If so, you stumbled on the via timer bug. Don't 

Yes.

> know much about it, but apparently the timer in some situation gives 
> garbage, causing the screensave of x to kick in. Try disabling the X 
> screensavers (within gnome/kde usualy), that worked for me. Since kernel 

I don't have screensaver!

> 2.4.3 I haven't seen this behavior btw, but I have upgraded so (X, the 
> kernel, the sblive driver, the bttv driver ...) 
> I don't know the version of the kernel that adressed this issue, (it 
> appeared multiple times in the mailing list, and was fixed several times 
> (appeared under different situations). If nothing works, try not using the 
> onboard sound and ata100. These apparently trigger the problem.

I don't have onboard sound & ata100

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