any monitor flickering problem with Intel® Extreme Graphics 2 & Redhat 9.0?
 

Has anybody experienced any monitor flickering problem with Intel® Extreme Graphics 2 & Redhat 9.0?

I aseembled a pc with Intel D865GLC MB, and P4 3.0 HT. I use on board video, which is Intel® Extreme Graphics 2.

I configured the video properly, using the redhat-config-xfree86, setting the vertical & horizontal sync rate properly for the monitor Samsung Syncmaster 793MB. But still the monitor seems to flicker.

When I boot the same machine with WinXp, I see that vertical refresh rate is 85Hz, and it does not flicker at all.

Could you please help on what I can do to fix this flicker problem?

THank you very much.

I have the following in the XFree86 log of the Intel D865GLC motherboard. It uses the INtel extreme graphics 2 on board video.

It says
"(WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f05 not supported.
(WW) I810(0): Failed to set refresh rate to 84Hz."

How can I fix this?

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(II) I810(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000
(II) I810(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 7 at 0x00fdf000 (pgoffset 4063)
(II) I810(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 0 at 0x07fff000 (pgoffset 32767)
(II) I810(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 2 at 0x07fee000 (pgoffset 32750)
(II) I810(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 1 at 0x07ffe000 (pgoffset 32766)
(II) I810(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 3 at 0x07800000 (pgoffset 30720)
(II) I810(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 4 at 0x07400000 (pgoffset 29696)
(II) I810(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 5 at 0x073f8000 (pgoffset 29688)
(II) I810(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 6 at 0x072f8000 (pgoffset 29432)
(WW) I810(0): PGTBL_ER is 0x00000029
(WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f05 not supported.
(WW) I810(0): Failed to set refresh rate to 84Hz.
(II) I810(0): Display plane A is enabled.
(II) I810(0): Display plane B is disabled.
(II) I810(0): PIPEACONF is 0x80000000
(II) I810(0): Mode bandwidth is 47 Mpixel/s
(WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f28 not supported.
(WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f61 not supported.
(II) I810(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
Screen to screen bit blits
Solid filled rectangles
8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
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THank you very much for your help.

Hi,
In section "Device" replace Driver "i810" with Driver "vesa":

Section "Device"

#no known options
Identifier "Intel 810"
Driver "vesa"
VendorName "Intel 810"
BoardName "Intel 810"
VideoRam "65536"
#BusID

EndSection


Good luck !

Thank you for the reply.

I changed to vesa and it works fine.

Thank you.

Thanks, I found this after some googling and I now have "hardware acceleration" on pc at work :)