[Intel-gfx] Screen flickering with kernel 2.6.33-rc3

[Jesse Barnes]

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 23:36:35 +0100
Hanno Böck <hanno at hboeck.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I switched to kernel 2.6.33-rc3 (due to reasons unrelated to
> graphics), and it causes my monitor to flicker from time to time
> (frequency is something about some minutes).
> 
> This didn't happen with 2.6.32.2. It happens with both
> xf86-video-intel-2.9.1 and 2.10.0, mesa is at 7.7 and xorg-server at
> 1.7.3.902. (Gentoo Linux)
> 
> Any ideas? There's nothing suspicious in Xorg.0.log or dmesg.

Does the flickering still occur if you load the i915 module with
powersave=0?

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center