Re: PowerNow! frequency scaling causes stalls

[Dick Streefland]

dick.streefland@xxxxxxxxx (Dick Streefland) wrote:
| I found out that the pauses only occur when the X server is running,
| not when I work on the console, or remotely. I can easily reproduce
| the problem by playing an mp3 file in a console with mpg321, and then
| running burnK7 to force frequency scaling. Without X server running,
| everything works fine, but when the X server is running, the music
| skips on frequency changes. However, when I start the X server, but
| switch back to the console with CTRL-ALT-F1, there are no skips.

It's me again :-). I solved the problem by changing the X.org video
driver from "vesa" to "sis". So it looks like the vesa driver (or
frame buffer?) is doing something funky.

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Dick Streefland                      ////                      Altium BV
dick.streefland@xxxxxxxxx           (@ @)          http://www.altium.com
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