Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 12:17:54 -0600 From: Steve Heistand <heistand@heistand.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: have a couple of problems. Message-ID: <20000529181754.9A2271B242@wendell.heistand.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 May 2000 10:35:45 PDT." <200005291735.KAA15737@apollo.backplane.com>
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it boggles my mind as well, but when I comment out the SMP lines in my config file: options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O options NCPU=2 # number of CPUs X goes bonkers, the screen randomly shifts back and forth a pixel or so. But now that SMP mode doesnt slow down my internet connection I am more or less fine. The little wiggle left is tolerable for the time being. The only thing I could think of is that the motherboard with the second cpu not being used gets a voltage spike (or other uncleanliness) and that is affecting the video card. Or perhaps the 40 degrees cooler the thing runs without the second cpu makes the video card unhappy :) steve > > I can't imagine how the display problems could be related to > the kernel. It sounds like a problem I've seen often on old > (3+ years) video cards where accellerated modes caused snow to > appear on the screen whenever the thing was bit blitting. > > I would mess around with the options available to you in XF86Config. > Read up on the card you have in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc to see what > tweaks are available. You can also try lowering the screen resolution > and/or the vertical refresh rate. > > -Matt > Steve Heistand heistand@heistand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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