[Debian-eeepc-devel] Screen flickers in X with 2.6.31: Probably fixed with -rc9-git1

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:42:37PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
> > The upstream i915 driver have a bug which will cause massive screen
> > flickering in X. Fortunately, there's already a patch available, but it
> > didn't make it for 2.6.31. 
> 
> s/didn't/probably won't/, given that 2.6.31 isn't yet out (-rc9 is current).

Right.

And just today, with 2.6.31-rc9-git1, a bunch of changes to the i915
driver have been incorporated. And if I remember it right, this 3000ms
to 5000ms is part of the change we need...

		Regards, Axel
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