[Nouveau] screen flicker

[Marcin Slusarz]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:16:15AM -0500, Bill Moss wrote:
> 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 applications that placed out of date shared objects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).

Does it go away if you add
Option "PageFlip" "0"
to Device section of xorg.conf?
If yes, this is https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42398

If not, please read http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs
and open new bug report with all mentioned logs.

Marcin