[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#601997: base: Irregular sync flashes on 8086:2a42

[Russel Winder]

Package: base
Severity: normal


A report was filed on Launchpad against Ubuntu Lucid reporting that the kernel upgrade from Karmic to Lucid
introduced irregular sync flashes on the screen.  cf.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/538648.

The problem reported there is also seeming to affect Debian Squeeze.

The upgrade to Ubuntu Maverick has caused the problem to go away when using that OS.  Sadly though the
problem still afflicts Debian Squeeze.  Is there any way the information from the Ubuntu-oriented
investigation can be applied to Debian Squeeze?

The flashes are really, really irritating.

Thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash