[Bug 410305] Re: screen flickering on dell laptop

[Aurelien Naldi]

It seems to have been a problem with the in-kernel part of the driver and KMS, fixed in the latest kernel update (2.6.31-6):
* I spotted some flicker in usplash and text console as well
* booting without KMS removed it
* it is gone, even with KMS enabled in 2.6.31-6 (and back if booting again on 2.6.31-5, it was not fixed by one of the other updates)

For the record, here is a short answer to your question:

The symptoms are similar to that of bug #399829:
many redraw trigger screen flickering, for exemple moving windows of the gdm animations, even text scrolling in a terminal
the only difference is that changing the resolution did not work arround it for me, otherwise, the flickering looked like the one in the video linked in bug #399829.

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Fix Released

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