Re: LCD screen flickering

[Rich Healey <healey.rich@gmail.com>]

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Ji ZhengYu wrote:
> Johan Marklund  wrote:
>> Ji ZhengYu skrev:
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Andrea Ferraresi
>>  > <andrea.ferraresi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >
>>  >>  On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:54 +0800, Ji ZhengYu wrote:
>>  >>  > Hi, everyone
>>  >>  > I used a toshiba laptop on debian/stable, and everything was OK!
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  > Now I am using debian/sid for some reasons, but some character
>>  >>  > in some fields on LCD screen is flickering, after a long time running
>>  >>  > debian, it will flicker more worse sometimes. I can't take a screenshot
>>  >>  > because it always looks good from the picture what I get  :-(
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  > kernel    2.6.24+13: i386
>>  >>  > xorg      1:7.3+10
>>  >>  > graphic driver i810 ( for my intel graphic 855GM card onboard)
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  > Any suggestion?
>>  >>  >
>>  >>
>>  >>  I'm currently experiencing the same problem with the same graphic card,
>>  >>  but only after hibernation. After a reboot my screen works fine.
>>  >>
>>  >>  --
>>  >>  |_|O|_|  Andrea Ferraresi <andrea.ferraresi@gmail.com>
>>  >>  |_|_|O|  KeyFP= CFE7 223E EB7A E729 9675  BA93 5152 C043 3817 D93A
>>  >>
>>  >
>>  > Well, after a reboot, it looks fine. But after some times, the same
>>  > problem come up again.
>>  > Any suggestion?
>>  >
>>  > Regards,
>>  >
>>  > G
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>
>>  Are you shure that the problem isn't hardware related? I've had several
>>  laptops with semi-broken inverter boards in the screen. It caused the
>>  monitor to flicker and sometimes go dark until next reboot.
>>
>>  regards
>>  --
>>  Yosh
>>
> 
> It's definite that the problem is software related. Now I'm back to
> stable, everything is OK again.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> G
> 
> 
try using the intel driver.
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