Bug#466462: xserver-xorg-video-intel: screen flickers not fixed with last version of the driver
forcemerge 463382 466462
thank you
Fabrice Lorrain wrote:
>>> BTS entry to confirm that the screen flicker problem is not fixed for
>>> my video card (945GM/GS provided in the mac-mini core 2 duo) with this
>>> new driver.
>>>
>>> This flicker is annoying.
>>>
>>
>> Related to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13326 ?
>
> Lot's of noise is this upstream bug. I'm not sure it's related.
Right, lots of people have apparently similar symptoms but it is not
clear at all whether the cause is the same.
> The problem I had was more like the one described in
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463382.
Ok, merging.
> FYI, this problem disappear by using Option "FramebufferCompression"
> "false" in xorg.conf. Thanks for the hint in Bug#466459.
> I hadn't had a single flicker for the last 4 weeks.
Good to know. Can you try xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.2.99.901 from
experimental without disabling framebuffer compression?
thanks,
Brice
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