Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757489Ab0ANTQG (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:16:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757366Ab0ANTQF (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:16:05 -0500 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:33939 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756902Ab0ANTQE (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:16:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4B4F6D5F.10008@cs.helsinki.fi> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:15:43 +0200 From: Pekka Enberg User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesse Barnes CC: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , airlied@linux.ie Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc4 References: <84144f021001131303u56fa5470ua1c27dfef9f3de81@mail.gmail.com> <20100113133357.67f9df6d@jbarnes-piketon> <4B4E403C.1050509@cs.helsinki.fi> <20100113165530.2a7e7645@jbarnes-piketon> In-Reply-To: <20100113165530.2a7e7645@jbarnes-piketon> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1501 Lines: 37 Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:50:52 +0200 > Pekka Enberg wrote: > >> Jesse Barnes wrote: >>> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:03:00 +0200 >>> Pekka Enberg wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Linus Torvalds >>>> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/