Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:25:25 +0100 | From | Paul Rolland <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.32 regression (bisected): Video tearing/glitching with T400 laptops |
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Hello,
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:15:26 +0900 Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:04:37 +0900 > Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:02:04 -0400 > > Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:26:45PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > > > > > If I need to live with a display glitch every 5-10 minutes or so > > > > to get better power savings, I'll take it.... > > > > > > > > > > While mail reading and composing responses in a tty based mail > > > reader (mutt/emacs -nw), I'm seeing display glitches every 3-5 > > > minutes. Each time it's quite minor so it's the sort of thing > > > which is definitely "blink at the wrong time and you'll miss it". > > > > > > Being a battery lifetime freak, I'll definitely take the tradeoff, > > > but given that it occurs even when I'm plugged into AC mains, I > > > could see some users being annoyed by it, and I could see them > > > wanting to be able to switch off the feature when they are on AC, > > > if we find a complete fix. > > > > Ok, hopefully this is the "correct" patch. It works for me, can you > > give it a try? > > Here's an even more "final" patchset with some spurious hunks removed. >
This is also fixing the problem I had with my Vostro !:) Thanks Frans for pointing my to this patches.
Tested-By: Paul Rolland <rol@as2917.net>
Regards, Paul
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