Video Drivers

FredGSanford · 12-12-2006, 11:05 PM

I recently built a new AMD64 Athlon 64 system with chipset VIA K8M890, Integrated VIA Chrome9 IGP.

After installing Debian Sid x86_64 on it, everything seems to be going fine. For my video driver, Sid installed 'vesa' because using 'via' drivers doesn't work.

I can live with the vesa driver but when I open windows, instead of the window scrolling up and down smoothly, they move in a wavy type of motion.

Any ideas why this happens or how to fix it?

Thnx.

TuxSurfer · 12-13-2006, 07:34 AM

Had the same problem on Etch, VIA K8M800 with VIA drivers working. Don't know what the problem was but I just disabled smooth scrolling and all is well. I know that doesn't exactly answer your question but I couldn't resolve the issue. I figured it had something to do with the VIA driver and if you are using vesa then I would think you are not getting the most from your video chipset either.

saikee · 12-13-2006, 07:44 AM

It may pay to look at the HorizSync and VertRefresh frequencies in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see if they match the monitor characteristic.

FredGSanford · 12-13-2006, 06:58 PM

I recently installed the 32bit version of Debian Sid and don't have the problem using vesa driver, not sure why not.

But I did do some searching around and found some drivers from VIA website.

I need the IGP chipset:
This package provides the kernel source code for the UniChrome Pro K8M800/P4M890 and Chrome9 IGP K8M890CE Linux display driver.

I will check it out and see what happens.

Thnx.

FredGSanford · 12-17-2006, 12:41 AM

I tried installing the drivers mention earlier but didn't quite install fully, some errors.

But the good thing is, that jerky/wavy motion is gone. I don't what made it change but now it's not there.

Thnx.