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Bug#493290: Re : Bug#493290: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Screen randomly flickers when using VGA output



Am Samstag, den 13.06.2009, 12:22 +0000 schrieb Benoit FREMON:
> ---- Message d'origine ----De : Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>xserver-xorg-video-inte
> 
> À : Benoit FREMON <bfremon@yahoo.fr>; 493290@bugs.debian.org
> Envoyé le : Samedi, 13 Juin 2009, 8h31mn 39s
> Objet : Re: 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?
> 
> Upgrading to version 2.7.1-1 of the xserver-xorg-video-intel doesn't
> fix the bug

could you please test again with latest intel driver (2.9.1-1)?

If the problem is still present could you please submit a bug report to
upstream Bugzilla [1].


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html

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