[Intel-gfx] Regression on GMA965 - display seems to have slow jump changes in brightness

[Zdenek Kabelac]

2012/5/22 Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 04:36:30PM +0200, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>> 2012/5/22 Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>:
>> > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 02:08:46PM +0200, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>> >> Hi
>> >>
>> >> I've updated to 3.4 kernel, and now I'm noticing slight changes in
>> >> brightness on colorful images.
>> >> It seems the change is mostly visibly on  'darker' images i.e. it's
>> >> not really visible on white background.
>> >>
>> >> When I reboot back to 3.3  kernel - brightness changes are gone - so I
>> >> do not suspect hw fault of my T61 display.
>> >> I guess once in past there has been already such bug, so this problem
>> >> seems to me like reintroducing the same
>> >> problem again.
>> >>
>> >> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.12.1-1.fc18.x86_64
>> >> with SNA intel driver build from git repo.
>> >> T61, 965GM
>> >>
>> >> Is this a know issue ?
>> >> Is bisect needed ?
>> >
>> > You're the first one to report things, so a bisect would be highly
>> > appreciated. Also I'm a bit confused about what you mean by 'changing
>> > brightness'. Can you please try to explain this a bit more?
>> >
>>
>> I've some default gnome picture like this one:
>> https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-96ZhFbfLX_M/ThHsm0ZxBgI/AAAAAAAAFQQ/3ApjzYgulso/s400/gnome-3-login-screen.png
>>
>> When I watch the picture for some period of time  I'm noticing slight
>> changes in the picture brightness looking like small change in LUT
>> table or something like that.
>> If the picture is white I'm not noticing any change.
>> (Initially I've thought my display dies - but reboot to 3.3 fixed the
>> issue immediately).
>
> "for some period", does that mean it takes you a while to notice the
> changes (because they're tiny), or are the changes happend just rather slowly?
>

Deviation in picture is not huge - but gets noticeable by my eyes and
it's annoying,
it's like several seconds between each minor change.

If I've monotone background in i.e. text editor  the change is
practically not visibible,
but if watch some digicam photos full screen they are quite obvious.

Not sure if that has any influence (not tested without)  I'm using
some icc profile
('xcalib') to get away from blue of IBM display.

>> Is there any suspecting patch for this chipset I should try to revert ?
>
> Tbh I have no idea. If there's no changes when the picture is white, it
> can't be the backlight, we haven't frobbed around with the gamma stuff and
> temporal dithering is disabled, too. If you can bisect this it would
> greatly help.

ok, I'll play this game in the evening if there is nothing obvious.

Zdenek