The "workaround" that Id2ndR posted does work in Lucid. What I did, until this bug is fixed, is created a bash script that runs on startup that executes that command. It's a horrible waste of CPU cycles... but hey, the screen isn't flickering.
The bash script, called stop-flicker.sh, looks like: #!/bin/bash while true ; do echo "toto" > /dev/null ; done I then gave the script execute privileges: sudo chmod +x stop-flicker.sh You could execute this every time your screen flickers... but instead I added a custom startup application, System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications -> Add I gave it the name Stop Flicker and gave it the command /home/$user /stop-flicker.sh Where $user is your user name... This is hacky... but it works. Please fix this bug soon! -- Lucid - Screen flickering with ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576181 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
