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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021226 Debian/1.2.1-9 Description of problem: I'm using a old machines IBM PC-300XL and HP Vectra with 233Mhz cpu and +192Mb ram. When i run ddcxinfo to get the Modelines the computer still runs as it should but I get som strange problems... The Clock goes slower, each computer second takes 5-6 seconds i real... root# time sleep 5 reports approx seconds but it takes 27 seconds in real to execute... The computer has either Trio 64V2/DX card or ATI Rage 128 strange strange Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kudzu-vesa 0.99.66 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reboot computer 2.# sleep 5 (takes 5 seconds until prompt comes back) 3.# ddcxinfo (or svgamodes) 4.# sleep 5 (takes 27-28 seconds until prompt comes back) Actual Results: I get network timeouts, the computer drifts 5 minutes slower every minute... Expected Results: None of above. The svgamodes and ddcxinfo gives correct info tough. Additional info:
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of response. This is a odd interaction between the real-mode DDC calls and your BIOS. It is unlikely that it will be fixed at this time.