Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc4

[Pekka Enberg]

Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:50:52 +0200
> Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:03:00 +0200
> > > Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Linus Torvalds
> > > > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Hmm. Odd release. Something like 40% of the patches are in DRM
> > > > > (mostly nouveau and radeon, both staging, so it's a bit less scary
> > > > > than it sounds. But there's a noticeable i915 component too).
> > > > > That's all pretty unusual, afaik.
> > > > 2.6.33-rc4 still suffers from an annoying screen flicker with i915
> > > > and KMS on my machine. I *think* it started with 2.6.33-rc1 but I
> > > > haven't had the time to dig deeper.
> > > Does this patch fix it?  If so I'll queue something like this up for
> > > -rc5.
> > Yes, it does. Thanks!
>
> Great, thanks for testing.  I'll send Eric a patch to disable this
> feature more properly.

OK, I think I am seeing a different kind of flicker now. It doesn't 
happen anywhere as often as before (which is probably why I missed it 
last night). The flicker is more like a flash of some other window 
whereas the flicker before used to "shake" the screen.

Does this ring a bell?

			Pekka
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