Bug#463382: xserver-xorg-video-intel: still flickering with new driver

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

Jos van Wolput wrote:
>
> Brice Goglin wrote:
>> Luca Bigliardi wrote:
>>> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
>>> Version: 2:2.2.0.90-3
>>> Followup-For: Bug #463382
>>>
>>>
>>> Please consider reopening this bug: I'm still getting a flickering
>>> screen on my Dell Latitude D420 (no framebuffer on console).
>>>
>>> Tell me if you need more info or if I've to try something (same
>>> behaviour occurs if I try git xf86-video-intel-2.2-branch ).
>>>   
>>
>> Both of you guys requested this bug to be reopened. But the bug
>> submitter said the problem was fixed. So you are not experiencing the
>> same problem, maybe because your hardware is different.
>>
>> You might want to try
>>     Option "FramebufferCompression" "false"
>> and look at the following upstream bugs that may be related
>>     https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11239
>>     https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13326
>>     https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13418
>> If you don't find anybody with your exact problem there, feel free to
>> open a new bug report (http://bugzilla.freedesktop.org, product xorg,
>> component Driver/Intel), attach xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log, and tell them
>> which driver version you are using and when the problem appeared.
>>
>> Brice
>>
>
> I downloaded and compiled two previous git snapshot versions (from
> pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-intel.git).
> xserver-xorg-video-intel-2_2.2.0.90-1 doesn't show any screen flickering
> but it occurs with xserver-xorg-video-intel-2_2.2.0.90-2.
> Looks as it's caused by a change between these two versions!

2:2.2.0.90-1 was a wrong 2.2.0.90, it contained an old upstream
snapshot, there are many commits this and -2. Please don't refer to
2:2.2.0.90-1 in any upstream bug report or the upstrem devs won't
understand what's going on :)

Brice