Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:15:43 +0200 | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc4 |
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Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:50:52 +0200 > Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: > >> Jesse Barnes wrote: >>> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:03:00 +0200 >>> Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Linus Torvalds >>>> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >>>>> Hmm. Odd release. Something like 40% of the patches are in DRM >>>>> (mostly nouveau and radeon, both staging, so it's a bit less scary >>>>> than it sounds. But there's a noticeable i915 component too). >>>>> That's all pretty unusual, afaik. >>>> 2.6.33-rc4 still suffers from an annoying screen flicker with i915 >>>> and KMS on my machine. I *think* it started with 2.6.33-rc1 but I >>>> haven't had the time to dig deeper. >>> Does this patch fix it? If so I'll queue something like this up for >>> -rc5. >> Yes, it does. Thanks! > > Great, thanks for testing. I'll send Eric a patch to disable this > feature more properly.
OK, I think I am seeing a different kind of flicker now. It doesn't happen anywhere as often as before (which is probably why I missed it last night). The flicker is more like a flash of some other window whereas the flicker before used to "shake" the screen.
Does this ring a bell?
Pekka
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