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Stanza? Huh? Please help!

Asked by Fingerlickin_B

Stanza in poetry? Got it.

Nissan Stanza? Drove it.

But what on earth is this?
""""3.2. What should I do if I have poor quality sound (pops, clicks and squeaks) - particularly when dragging or scrolling windows?

    This is caused by X writing blindly to the video card's instruction queue without checking to see if the queue is full. This will lock the PCI bus for about 40 - 50 audio cycles, causing pops, clicks and squeaks. The via82cxxx_audio driver is still somewhat fragile, so it is possible that some applications will fault ungracefully if the bus is disrupted badly enough (e.g. with SDL applications).
    You can make X play nicely with the PCI bus by adding
    Option "PciRetry" "true"
    to the "Device" stanza. Nasty pops and glitches will go away, and system stability will be much improved.""""

PLEASE help me....I have no idea what any of the above means...I'm going crazy here!!!! :( :( :( :(

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

As an analogy with poetry, stanza is loosely used in computer science to refer to a block or section of a human-readable configuration file (lets call it a software poetic license, shall we?).

These instructions (a link could have been useful) seem to refer to the xorg.conf file (the X server configuration file), which is located in /etc/X11.
If you open this file, you will see a "Device" section like this:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc R420 JP [Radeon X800XT]"
        Driver "ati"
        BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

The instructions ask you to add an entry like this:

Option PciRetry "True"

to it.
To edit this file you need Super User rights (for instance on Gnome open your editor with gksu, like: gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf).
If you don't know what you are doing, don't, because you could screw up your system with a bad editing of this file.

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