Bug#443809: xserver-xorg-video-intel: constant flickering with 855GM chip

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Manuel Ifland wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Version: 2:2.1.1-4
> Severity: important
>
>
> I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Liefebook E Series with an integrated 855 Graphics Device. After upgrading xorg and
> the xserver-xorg-video-intel package to version 2.1.1, the screen flickers dramatically. Even changing the frequency
> does not have any effect, even when the flickering seems to be reduced a little bit.
>   

What did you upgrade from? Which xserver-xorg-video-intel did you have
before? /var/log/aptitude or /var/log/dpkg.log might be helpful.

Could you locate in which release the problem appeared? Could you
compare the output of xrandr --verbose with the old good version and 2.1.1?

Thanks,
Brice