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FS#41605 - [xf86-video-intel] Screen flickering, tearing and corruptions with Xorg 1.16

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Max Liebkies (gegenschall) - Monday, 18 August 2014, 10:23 GMT
Last edited by Laurent Carlier (lordheavy) - Tuesday, 09 September 2014, 10:25 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Copypasta of my Arch forum post at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1446740

"I'm running into randomly but frequently occurring screen corruptions like flashing, tearing and artifacts since the update to Xorg 1.16. I can't say for sure if they started to occur on 1.16.0-6 or earlier.
The curruptions happen in every application, no matter what Display I'm using (tried LVDS and DVI)."

This happens with SNA enabled.


There seems to be a working patch (helps with my issue) here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81551
Applying it removes the flickering and tearing with SNA enabled.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Tuesday, 09 September 2014, 10:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  xf86-video-intel-2.99.916-1
Comment by Max Liebkies (gegenschall) - Monday, 18 August 2014, 10:25 GMT
Link to the patch: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=103262

edit: Sorry, reported success to early. The patch does only help "a little". I'm still having tearing and artifacts just not that often.
Comment by Laurent Carlier (lordheavy) - Monday, 08 September 2014, 12:34 GMT
please test with xf86-video-intel-2.99.916-1 in testing
Comment by Max Liebkies (gegenschall) - Tuesday, 09 September 2014, 09:41 GMT
Seems to be helping. Haven't had any artifacts since updating. :-)

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