Re: [PLUG] GeForce DDR & Xfree

["Vale Kenny" <vkenny@quarterleaf.com>]

I don't think it's an X issue..
I had the identical issue..  can't rest the mouse for more than a few
seconds..etc, etc.  
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest you have an FIC SD-11 motherboard,
with an Athlon Processor?  In the BIOS settings, turn off Power Management..
V

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> CoYoTe wrote:
> 
> > Well, i have a litle probleme with my configuration of Xserver
> > and may be is there someone there which will be able to provide
> > a solution for.
> >
> > ( please excuse me for my english :) )
> >
> > My Xserver ( 3.3.5 or 4.0 ) is very instable, when i lauch it , that work
> > and when i lauch a X11amp,Xmms,Xawtv or mpeg_play, the screen become black
> > and i have to check the mouse to view my desktop.The probleme is that ,
> > since this moment screen become black every 2s of inactivity of mouse and
> > i have to maintain the mouse in a perpetual mouvement :(
> >
> > It's not a joke ....
> >
> > I notice this probleme with wmaker, afterstep, enlightenment, gnome ...
> > except for KDE !! With KDE nothing work properly ( it don't refresh the
> > x11amp for example ) but no bug ...
> >
> > this is some unsuccefull method i try:
> >
> > * Restart the Xserver -> the pb is still there and i have to restart my
> > computer ( like if i use windows )
> >
> > * Check every ligne of XF86Config -> still there
> >
> > * Reinstall Xserver -> still there
> >
> > * switch off the frame buffer -> still there
> >
> > * Remove all overclocking set -> still there
> >
> > So If someone has got an idea .....
> 
> I remember having this problem, but I cannot say that I remember exactly what
> I did to fix it.  It happened to me for a few days on a new system, I still
> needed to upgrade a number of RPMs and it fixed itself as part of that - I
> think.
> 
> It sounds like xscreensaver has some sort of timing problem.  i.e. the timer
> that xscreensaver is using to know when to engage isn't getting cleared/reset
> when you move the mouse, it immediatly re-engages.  Try killing the
> xscreensaver process after this problem presents it self.
> 
> If that isn't it, maybe its power management.....but that might only explain
> the problem in GNOME, not the others.
> 
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> 
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