Bug#601478: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Enabling KMS causes intermitted flickering

2010-10-27 Thread Kim Holviala
On 2010-10-27 11:18, Cyril Brulebois wrote: What's next - would you like me to file an upstream bug? Yes please, giving me the URL or bug number so that I can link both reports. After trying experimental xorg (no working intel driver package - boohoo), purging all of xorg and reinstalling t

Bug#601478: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Enabling KMS causes intermitted flickering

2010-10-26 Thread Kim Holviala
On 2010-10-26 19:34, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> I have nothing against KMS itself, but the fact that it cannot be >> turned off pretty much ruins everything right now... > > can you please file a bug upstream for that? You may want to test a > newer upstream snapshot first though: http://autobuild

Bug#601478: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Enabling KMS causes intermitted flickering

2010-10-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Kim, Kim Holviala (26/10/2010): > But now I'm stuck with KMS which offers nothing but causes constant > intermitted flickering. I cannot pinpoint any particular cause, but > even now that I have nothing else than xfce4-terminal open it > flickers. The flickering looks like a 5-10cm worth of s

Bug#601478: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Enabling KMS causes intermitted flickering

2010-10-26 Thread Kim Holviala
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.12.0+shadow-2 Severity: normal I dist-upgraded this Testing installation a few days ago and it totally broke my X. After some hacking I figured out that the current X11 Intel driver requires KMS which for some reason just didn't work for me because