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#1 2006-04-29 19:40:49

otake-tux
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Registered: 2006-04-29
Posts: 20

flickering and cpufreq

I have been playing around with arch for a week and I'm very impressed.  Indeed it is a great distribution.  It gives the user the power and flexibility to do anything while keeping things simple.

Now on to my problem!  I get flickering on the screen whenever my cpu goes below its max.  It's not something terrible but it is annoying.  I thought it was casued by the refresh rates so I searched this forum and went to some websites to calculate the refresh rate for my laptop.  I edited xorg.conf and I put in the correct refresh rates so I stopped getting the flickering as long as the cpu was at its max.

This cannot be right.  I also can't control the cpufreq.  I tell it to stay on performance with the max cpu but it keeps going back to powersave thereby causing the annoying flickering.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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#2 2006-04-30 10:23:37

Stanislav
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Registered: 2004-10-16
Posts: 82

Re: flickering and cpufreq

maybe you need to load all the governors in order to change your cpu frequency. what modules do you have loaded?


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#3 2006-04-30 17:05:51

otake-tux
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Registered: 2006-04-29
Posts: 20

Re: flickering and cpufreq

the following governors show up on the gnome-applet:
ondemand
userspace
powersave
performance

these are the ones rc.conf:
cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_userspace
freq_table powernow_k8 cpufreq_ondemand)

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