epia and dsl

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: epia and dsl
started by: matrulesok

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Posted by matrulesok on Sep. 09 2005,16:37

i seem to be suffering the issue covered in one of the topics in the mini-itx.xom faq sections:

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3.2. What should I do if I have poor quality sound (pops, clicks and squeaks) - particularly when dragging or scrolling windows?    This is caused by X writing blindly to the video card's instruction queue without checking to see if the queue is full. This will lock the PCI bus for about 40 - 50 audio cycles, causing pops, clicks and squeaks. The via82cxxx_audio driver is still somewhat fragile, so it is possible that some applications will fault ungracefully if the bus is disrupted badly enough (e.g. with SDL applications).    You can make X play nicely with the PCI bus by adding    Option "PciRetry" "true"    to the "Device" stanza. Nasty pops and glitches will go away, and system stability will be much improved.

How do I go about implementing these fixes?
Many thanks for your help!

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Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Sep. 09 2005,21:39

With Kdrive, there is no xf86config-4, so I'm not sure this can be done.

But if you install Xfree86, you should be able to add that line to xf86config-4

-J.P.

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