On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Thomas Bächler wrote: >>> >>> Allan McRae schrieb: >>>> >>>> That works for me. I initially thought it was strange that it came on >>>> but now I see why. extreme-tuxracer is giving me (>50%) more FPS with this >>>> update. >>> >>> Intel DRM has been improved, I noticed that too - probably due to >>> framebuffer compression. >>> >>> KMS is enabled by default because the next intel driver version will >>> require it to work. >> >> With KMS on, my screen flickers every 20sec or so. Tried with no xorg.conf >> and the same thing. I even got some sort of yellow/orange screen of death. >> I did not use KMS with 2.6.31 so this may not be kernel related. I'll look >> into it later but disabling kms from the grub prompt works fine... > > It's definitely a kernel regression, I'm having the exact same issue > with .32 only (using KMS since few kernel releases) > Does upstream know about this ? If you have no idea, make sure they know :) If the issue happens before starting X, just check your kernel log / dmesg. If it happens after X, check both dmesg and Xorg.0.log
