Hi Thomas, Thomas Richter <richter@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (13/02/2011): > Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel > Version: 2:2.13.0-5 > Severity: important > > > Leaving the "Tiling" option of the intel driver enabled in xorg.conf > results in massive flicker in Xv overlays and spurious rendering > errors. It makes most multimedia packages unusable, and renders a > couple of applications useless. > > The following workarounds exist: > > *) Set Option "Tiling" to "false" in xorg.conf - or - > *) use xrandr to set the frame buffer size larger than 1024. > > Note that setting the frame buffer height larger than 768 (the > native screen size) does not help. > > Chip set is (see below) an intel 945GM, kernel version is 2.6.32.28. > > Note that this bug may be a duplicate of > > 610540,558396,554427,574606,596085,600041,481036,596781 or 603142 thanks for the pointers. If you have some time to spend, it might be interesting to give a try to a newer kernel, or maybe even to a newer version of the intel driver. We're planning on backporting it to squeeze from time to time, but it would be nice to know in advance whether that's fixed upstream already, or whether we should have this report forwarded upstream. KiBi.
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