Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 21:45:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Bernie Doehner <bad@uhf.wireless.net> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: Volker Freiburg <volker@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual PPro & Bt848 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970709212624.560B-100000@uhf.wdc.net> In-Reply-To: <19970709211636.38582@ct.picker.com>
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> |Actualy mine is EDO based.. But I still have a few problems.. Mostly:
>
> Oh, so you have the Stealth 3D 2000 Pro? Seems like that's the Virge/DX,
> isn't it?
Can't check right now, but that sounds familiar (the DX part).
> |1. Flicker - (new problem). Now I have pretty bad flicker in X. Don't
> |really understand it because I think the refresh rate is 85 Hz. and I am
> |not interlaced and not exceeding the monitor specs.
>
> Hmmm. Is this just in the TV window or is this the whole screen?
latter.. Unfortunately.
> If the former,
> does it happen when you -disableDirectV?
> If the latter,
> 1) does this happen all the time or just when the TV is on?
All the time.
> 2) does xvidtune confirm 85Hz?
Learn something new every day (ever think about teaching a class
in configuring X windows ?).
It's actualy 75.94 Hz., Horizontal Sync 62.5 kHz, Pixel Clock: 85
MHz. This is within the monitor's spec.
> 3) you said you checked, but might double-check that it's not 42.5Hz
> interlaced you're seeing.
I guess not.. Although it reminds me of my Amiga's 640x480
interlaced screen.
> |2. Wincast will still ocasionaly hangs with IDE timeouts. By far not as
> |bad as before, but still happens.. BUT, I discovered something that might
> |have been causing me problems. I was IRQ sharing between my ethernet and
> |video card. I am trying to get a Digiboard so that I can free up some of
> |my IRQ's.
>
> Nuts, from your previous comments I thought we had that licked on your 486.
Yea.. well, only if you run at maximum resolution for very long time..
Like 60 minutes, which I don't routinely do. Also I discovered that in the
past (before I shoved the cards around), the PCI network card and S3
Virge card were sharing an interrupt. I am not sure if interrupts are even
used in DMA on the PC.. I didn't think so, but I am not a PC programmer.
I just know that on my Hitachi boards the DMA controller can generate an
end of transfer interrupt.
Also, I currently have no video.. Audio only, but I probably screwed
something up in the recently reorganization.
> Well, at least you can do ximages and the CPU load isn't heavy anymore.
Yes, and full screen res is stable (with the exception of the rare hangs).
> As
> Amancio's mentioned, this sounds like a MB chipset issue. Since the
> Windoze S/W works for you, there's evidently something that can be done,
> but it might be a difficult find. It's interesting though that all the
> Pentium+ MBs don't see this particular problem.
>
You are talking to/about Volker here. No windows loaded here.
Bernie
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