[Nouveau] screen flicker

[Bill Moss]

I recently moved my openSUSE 11.4 system from the
proprietary drivers to nouveau. After much grief due to the
sometimes conflicting instruction on the Internet and
applications that placed out of date shared objects
(libraries) in /usr/local/lib which is searched first by
ld.so, I have it working on a 19" wide screen LCD monitor at
1440x900.

However, there is a distinct and periodic flicker that was
not present with the NVIDIA drivers and the font rendering
is not as crisp. I'm using the nouveau as supplied by the
standard repositories of openSUSE (zypper repos).

Attached is a file that contains the information relevant to
the installation.

Note that the change was made to get rid of the proprietary
software and since openSUSE 12.1 defaults to nouveau. I
intend to customize (make xconfig) compile the current
stable 3.x kernel to see if this fixes the problem. Other
suggestions would be welcome.

-- 
William (Bill) Moss
billmoss at acm.org
NY (USA)
  Those who will not reason, are bigots,
  those who cannot, are fools,
  and those who dare not, are slaves.
by Lord Byron
  Justice will not be served until those who are
  unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
by Benjamin Franklin
  Honor, justice and humanity forbid us tamely to
  surrender that freedom which we received from 
  our gallant ancestors and which our innocent 
  posterity have a right to receive from us. We 
  cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning 
  succeeding generations to that wretchedness which 
  inevitably awaits them if we basely entail 
  hereditary bondage on them.
by Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking up Arms
6 July 1775

-------------- next part --------------
An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed...
Name: sysconfig.txt
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/attachments/20111115/192f793f/attachment.txt>