Bug 236436 – x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.4.2 reproducible flicker

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Laurento Frittella (mrfree) 2008-09-02 11:40:10 UTC]

As suggested by Remi I file a new bug because I noticed some flickers almost every time I start "UltraVNC viewer" using wine. Please ask me for more useful info.

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2008-09-02 17:46:10 UTC]

Please post your `emerge --info' too.

[Comment 2 Laurento Frittella (mrfree) 2008-09-02 20:18:22 UTC]

Portage 2.2_rc8 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-tuxonice-r9-dsdt i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.24-tuxonice-r9-dsdt-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1.73GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:15:01 +0000
distcc 3.0rc2 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r6
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.2.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -minline-stringops-dynamically"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -minline-stringops-dynamically"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage-distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=2 --load-average=7"
FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ ftp://213.186.33.37/gentoo-distfiles/ http://213.186.33.37/gentoo-distfiles/"
LANG="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="it en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2 --load-average=7"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage-packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/java-overlay /usr/portage/local/layman/secondlife /usr/portage/local/layman/gechi /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amr avahi berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups dbus djvu dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds encode exif ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gnome-keyring gnome-print gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv idn ipod isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k kdeenablefinal keyring lame latex lcms libnotify logrotate lzo mad midi mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg mudflap musicbrainz nautilus ncurses newspr nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype unicode v4l2 vorbis x264 x86 xattr xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-09-02 22:42:15 UTC]

I've just committed 2.4.2-r1 with a patch that tries to solve the issue. Please let me know how it works for you.

Thanks

[Comment 4 Laurento Frittella (mrfree) 2008-09-03 18:24:00 UTC]

I've just tried with 2.4.2-r1 but the flickers are still here

[Comment 5 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-09-04 08:45:21 UTC]

Ok, that's a bit disappointing but not discouraging! ;)

Could you paste/attach the output of "lspci -vv"?

Thanks

[Comment 6 Laurento Frittella (mrfree) 2008-09-04 08:56:08 UTC]

Created attachment 164543 [details]
lspci

sure! here you are...

[Comment 7 Vasily 2008-09-17 14:52:05 UTC]

I can confirm that 2.4.2-r1 does not fix the problem. Flickering is still here (gma950 video)

[Comment 8 Tobias Jakobi 2008-09-24 03:05:07 UTC]

Just update to xf86-video-intel git, the 2.5 branch.

Flickering is gone, so this should be fixed with the next driver version.

[Comment 9 Tobias Jakobi 2008-09-24 03:38:22 UTC]

This should read "Just updated...". I don't want to encourage people switching to a bleeding edge git release.

I also only did this because I wanted to try out DRM-GEM, which the 2.5 branch should have support for. Quite impressive work if you ask me :)

[Comment 10 William Johansson 2008-09-24 21:33:40 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Just update to xf86-video-intel git, the 2.5 branch.
> 
> Flickering is gone, so this should be fixed with the next driver version.
> 

I just upgraded to xf86-video-intel-9999 (from the x11-overlay) and libdrm-9999.

I still see flickering, but no crash or total lockdown yet.
This flickering is random for me, but usually follows with a crash.

[Comment 11 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) 2008-10-31 20:03:07 UTC]

Do you happen to use fluxbox? (They had a flickering problem which is fixed in the git tree.)

[Comment 12 William Johansson 2008-10-31 20:06:11 UTC]

(In reply to comment #11)
> Do you happen to use fluxbox? (They had a flickering problem which is fixed in
> the git tree.)
> 

I've used Fluxbox, Gnome (with metacity and with compiz), only XBMC, etc.
The same flicker appears on two chips, one in my Mac Mini (Intel GMA 950 i think) and the one in my htpc (a Intel DG45ID, GMA X4500HD i think).

[Comment 13 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-02-02 10:26:47 UTC]

I've just added xf86-video-intel 2.6.1 to portage. Please try with this version and a recent kernel (2.6.28 or newer). The flicker should now be gone.

If it's not the case, please reopen this bug with updated information (package versions, new logs, etc).

Thanks