Bug#574606: xserver-xorg-video-intel: screen distorted by intermittent flickering in 800x480 resolution mode

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

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kthxbye

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 13:44:30 +0100, Tobias Prousa wrote:

> > Hi,
> > 
> > Tobias Prousa <topro@gmx.de> (25/02/2011):
> > > with an up-to-date squeeze its still the same, I'm afaraid.  Gonna
> > > give sid a try but it will take me some time to do the upgrade.
> > 
> > no worries. Take your time, and thanks for the follow-up.
> > 
> > KiBi.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> so did the upgrade, today's sid, but what should I say... its still the same. 
> 
> Did some re-investigation. Running plain xfce at 800x480 gives nice
> image, no distortion. At once when I start an opengl application,
> flickering of the whole screen begins, not just the window containing
> the opengl application. The more opengl "activity" the more
> distortions. Glitches mostly stop when exiting opengl application.
> I'm out of ideas.
> 
> Any way I can help debugging?
> 
Do you still get these distortions on an uptodate stack?  (I'm not quite
sure why you are using this weird 800x480 resolution...)
If yes, please see http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html
and report a bug upstream according to those instructions.  Please let
us know the bug number for tracking.

Cheers,
Julien