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Hi,
(I've only Intel hardware available but since git bisect shows the culprit =
in
drm and not drm/i915, I've filed it against DRM/other, feel free to reassig=
n)
Since 4.11, I've noticed major flickering on some displays I have (reproduc=
ible
100%). By flickering I mean the screen is mostly black and every few second=
s I
can see a flash with the screen content and it goes black again.
It only occurs with the preferred mode, i.e. when I force a modeline to ano=
ther
mode in xorg.conf the flickering does not occur.
I've tried all versions up to latest 4.14.0-rc2 and it is still reproducibl=
e,
4.10.x were fine. The display driver used (intel or modesetting) does not m=
ake
a difference.
I tried on all hardware I have here (NUC gen4 d5420, NUC5i5 and NUC6i5SYB) =
and
the behavior is the same. I tried miniDP and HDMI, and it does not change
anything.
The captured logs below have been run on a NUC6i5SYB connected with miniDP,
running CentOS 7.3, with the kernel 4.11.8 (from mainline, no ct7 or rhel
patches). The git bisect was also run on this machine.
Git bisect identified fcc8a22cc9053a8d1bbb94833ec103cd5961feef as first bad
commit.
With the log files below, 4.11.8-1 is "original" 4.11.8 kernel (b=
ad), and
4.11.8-2 includes the commit reverted (good).
>>From the git bisect log and the fact it can be worked around with another
modeline, I'm not even sure this is a regression in the kernel, as this mig=
ht
be that the screen is advertising something it cannot support properly...
Thanks.