Bug#522226: xserver-xorg-video-intel: screen briefly flashes/flickers a few times an hour
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> I compiled xf86-video-intel-2.6.99.902 from upstream. It also didn't
> have the sync fix. But it was the only version to which the sync patch
> applied cleanly (2.6.1 and 2.6.3 had a few hunks failing). The 'make
> install' put the modules went into /usr/local/lib/xorg/
>
Don't use make install. Just copy src/.libs/intel.so into
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ (after having moved the old intel.so from
there).
> I cannot quite figure out how to run the regular server (1.4.2) but with
> the latest intel driver. I tried adding a vt8 line to the end of
> /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
>
> :0 local /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp
> :1 local /usr/bin/Xorg :0 vt8 -nolisten tcp -modulepath /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/,/usr/lib/xorg/modules
>
Don't use multiple X servers when debugging things like this since some
2-server-related problems may appear.
Just restart the main X after installing the new driver as explained
above, and check in the log that the right intel driver version is found.
Brice
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