On 2010-10-27 11:18, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
What's next - would you like me to file an upstream bug?Yes please, giving me the URL or bug number so that I can link both reports.
After trying experimental xorg (no working intel driver package - boohoo), purging all of xorg and reinstalling the Testing versions it all started working. Since I wasn't going to give up that easily I hacked and hacked until I got it flickering again :-) and finally figured out what was wrong with my setup:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Configured Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16
EndSection
It seems that xserver-xorg-video-intel with KMS enabled just doesn't
work right with 16-bit colors. By changing the above to "24" and
restarting X it all started working beautifully.
Upstream bug for sure, and one that only affects us old beards who just *KNOW* that 16-bit colors work twice as fast as 24-bit colors (with it's newfangled four bytes per pixel).
*cough* :-D I think the Debian bug can be closed now. - Kim