On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Xavier <shiningxc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 :) As I had/still have no idea, I've started a thread on LKML earlier today, which has been CC'd to intel-gfx since. > 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 It happens in X only and I didn't notice anything suspicious in Xorg.0.log or dmesg...
