Bug#607227: [RV516] with kms, screen flickers, without kms xorg eats 100% CPU
- To: Marcos Marado <mindboosternoori@gmail.com>
- Cc: 607227@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#607227: [RV516] with kms, screen flickers, without kms xorg eats 100% CPU
- From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:13:35 -0600
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Hi Marcos,
Marcos Marado wrote:
> Yup, just did one test: turned modeset on and booted with
> radeon.new_pll=0 and the flickering is gone.
Nice. I assume you can reproduce this with current squeeze
kernels, too? Could you try patches 1/3 and 2/3 (but _not_ 3/3)
from [1] and see if they fix it?
Instructions for testing a patched kernel are at [2].
Thanks much,
Jonathan
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597358#88
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597358#93
[2] http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s4.2.3
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