From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcin Slusarz Subject: Re: screen flicker Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:12:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20111115181243.GA3415@joi.lan> References: <4EC2742F.2040504@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EC2742F.2040504-H+0wwilmMs3R7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Errors-To: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org To: Bill Moss Cc: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:16:15AM -0500, Bill Moss wrote: > I recently moved my openSUSE 11.4 system from the > proprietary drivers to nouveau. After much grief due to the > sometimes conflicting instruction on the Internet and > applications that placed out of date shared objects > (libraries) in /usr/local/lib which is searched first by > ld.so, I have it working on a 19" wide screen LCD monitor at > 1440x900. > > However, there is a distinct and periodic flicker that was > not present with the NVIDIA drivers and the font rendering > is not as crisp. I'm using the nouveau as supplied by the > standard repositories of openSUSE (zypper repos). Does it go away if you add Option "PageFlip" "0" to Device section of xorg.conf? If yes, this is https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42398 If not, please read http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs and open new bug report with all mentioned logs. Marcin