Bug#607227: [RV516] with kms, screen flickers, without kms xorg eats 100% CPU

[Marcos Marado <mindboosternoori@gmail.com>]

Hi there,

On Wednesday 25 January 2012 23:13:35 Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> found 607227 linux-2.6/2.6.32-29
> merge 575893 607227
> quit
> 
> 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?

I will have to find the time to take the dust off that machine, put a hard 
drive there, install debian and test it again. I am willing to do that and 
I'll put it on my TODO list, but please don't hold your breath waiting...

Thank you,
-- 
Marcos Marado