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title="NEEDINFO - [HSW] Screen flickering problems on Acer laptops from 4.6 kernel"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97056#c13">Comment # 13</a>
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title="NEEDINFO - [HSW] Screen flickering problems on Acer laptops from 4.6 kernel"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97056">bug 97056</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:tomasz.bazan.89@gmail.com" title="Tomasz Bazan <tomasz.bazan.89@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Tomasz Bazan</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Elio from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=97056#c12">comment #12</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to Peter Erdelyi from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=97056#c11">comment #11</a>)
> > I have upgraded a Lenovo S540 from Fedora F23 (kernel-4.5.7-200.fc23.x86_64)
> > to F24 (kernel-4.6.3-300.fc24.x86_24) and the display started flickering at
> > the edges. The next kernel-4.8.0.0.rc1.git0.1.fc25.x86_64 flickered and
> > produced a loop,while the display changed the brightness. Touching the mouse
> > stopped the failure. Then it started again.
> > Kernel-4.8.0.0.rc3.git0.1.fc25.x86_64 doesn't flicker any more, but the ugly
> > loop with the changing brightness is still there during the boot process.
> > When I turn off the computer the display turns into a very bright white.
> >
> > chipset: 4 x IntelĀ®core i5-4210U CPU @ 1.70GHz
> > system architecture: 64-bit
> > xserver: 11.0 Fedora Project
> > mesa: Mesa DRI Intel(R)Haswell Mobile
> > kernel: 4.8.0-0.rc3.git0.1.fc25.x86_64
> > Linux distribution: Fedora 24
> > display connector: FHD, Laptop screen 1920*1080 px (full hd), mat.
>
> Hello Peter, could you try updating your system to 4.10? a lot of new
> patches were merged recently.</span >
Hello Elio, thanks for your reply. I confirm that on Acer v3-722G with debian
testing upgrading kernel to version 4.10.8 helps on flickering screen.</pre>
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