Quote:>I popped a new SIMM in my machine last night, going from 8 to 16
>megs. Now I'm getting a "flickering" or "crackling" effect in X - ugly
>horizontal breaks in the screen at random moments. I've seen the exact
>same thing before, but in MS-Windows when I was running at too high of
>a resolution. X has never done this before, and I _promise_ the only
>change was this new SIMM. The machine is an AMD-486 with a CLGD-5428
>(1 meg VRAM). It runs kernel 1.2.13 and XFree86 3.1.2, using the
>standard SVGA server at 800x600.
It sounds like the new memory is too slow. If the memory is slow, it
may take a moment (say, one extra clock cycle) for the memory that
contains the informatino to be displayed to be accessed, causing a
flicker. (Yes, that sentence makes sense; read it again.)
-Joel
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|_|~~ Germany, Europe. 1940's "The diameter of the bomb was 30 centimeters,
__|~| 16 Million DEAD. and the diameter of its destruction, about 7
meters, and in it four killed and 11 wounded.
cnc Bosnia, Europe. 1990's And around these, in a larger circle of pain
cnc HOW MANY MORE? and time, are scattered two hospitals and one
cemetery. But the young woman who was buried in
the place from where she came, at a distance of more than
than 100 kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably. And the
lonely man who is mourning her death in a distant country incorporates
into the circle the whole world. And I won't speak of the cry of the orphans
that reaches God's chair and from there makes the circle endless and godless."
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