Bug#493290: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Screen randomly flickers when using VGA output
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:18:35PM +0200, Benoit FREMON wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Version: 2:2.3.2-2+lenny1
> Severity: important
>
> When VGA output is set to a resolution higher than 1280x1024 using
> xrandr (eg to 1400x1050 or 1600x1200), the X server will randomly
> flickers after a few minutes to a few hours, making the X server
> unusable, and needed a restart of it by means of C-M-Backspace.
>
> Describing what I call flickering is hard: the screen is messed, it
> is nearly impossible to read anything because the image is moving too
> fast. Some random clicking can redraw correctly the screen, but only for
> a seconde before going back to flickering, and it doesn't work reliably.
> Another observation is that sometimes (too!), the right limit of
> the Desktop is in the middle or so of the screen, and the rest of the
> desktop is wrapped around the screen, ie the left part is pushed to the
> right part of the screen.
Does this still happen with latest intel driver in unstable or
experimental?
Brice
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