Hi Kim, Kim Holviala <kim@holviala.com> (26/10/2010): > But now I'm stuck with KMS which offers nothing but causes constant > intermitted flickering. I cannot pinpoint any particular cause, but > even now that I have nothing else than xfce4-terminal open it > flickers. The flickering looks like a 5-10cm worth of screwed up > hsyncs - colors are right but vertical lines are all messed up. This > lasts for a second or two and then goes away for a few minutes until > it comes back. Once it flickered half my screen and didn't stop at > all which caused me to panic and shut down this laptop as fast as > possible... > > I have nothing against KMS itself, but the fact that it cannot be > turned off pretty much ruins everything right now... can you please file a bug upstream for that? You may want to test a newer upstream snapshot first though: http://autobuild.ikibiki.org/ To file bugs, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ product=xorg, component=Driver/intel, although it might be on the kernel side. See http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html for further info. As for going for KMS only, we only follow upstream, after having spent some time wondering about that move. See: http://blog.ikibiki.org/2010/07/04/We_need_you_redux/ http://blog.ikibiki.org/2010/10/02/October-X-update/ > This machine is a standard Lenovo Thinkpad x301 with an integrated > VGA chip. No extrenal display or any other devices. The installation > is mostly Testing with some packages form Unstable/Experimental and > Ubuntu. But I'm pretty sure all packages related to the flicker come > from Testing. Sure; if you had something from experimental, you would have the whole X stack (server + drivers) from there. Mraw, KiBi.
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