On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Emmanuel Benisty wrote: >> >> 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. > > Can I have a link please? > sure, it's there: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/5/4 and there http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2009-December/005077.html