[Intel-gfx] [i945GM] Flickering with 2.6.31-rc3

[Jesse Barnes]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:44:16 +0200
Johannes Engel <jcnengel at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> following Jesse's advice here [1] I updated to kernel 2.6.31-rc3 and
> libdrm, Mesa, xf86-video-intel of current git master, xserver 1.6.2,
> to resolve the huge memory leaks experienced earlier using UXA and
> GEM. However, now every application using Mesa makes the LVDS flicker
> so that it becomes unusable. Comparing glxgears output though shows
> that using kernel 2.6.31-rc3 this is 40% quicker than using kernel
> 2.6.30. However, kernel 2.6.30 with the same userspace does not show
> this flickering.
> 
> What is the reason? What can I do?

Could be this bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19304

there's a patch attached.  Can you give it a try?

Thanks,
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center