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From: Martin Wilck <mwilck@arcor.de>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Intel HD 4400] strongly irritating artefacts on 2560x1440 laptop display
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:47:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54CAAA5A.7000905@arcor.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150128094505.GG28132@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com>

On 01/28/2015 10:45 AM, Chris Wilson wrote:

> From watching the video, and your comments here, it is clear this is not
> a driver bug (neither in the ddx nor opengl compositor). That leaves us
> with hardware misconfiguration, aka kernel bug. Some of the artefacts
> could be a display underrun. It would be good to check a drm.debug=0xe
> dmesg for any warnings (and the info itself will be useful). Another
> thing worth playing with is i915.enable_fbc=1 (though that is really
> just swapping one problem with another).

i915.enable_fbc=1 had no effect.

I agree with you that this is probably a low-level problem, although the
fact that the artefacts strongly depend on Window content doesn't fit
that theory.

Martin

PS: I have just done a thing I thought I'd never do - I am downloading
an evaluation copy of Windows in order to check whether my HW is faulty.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-29 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-27 21:49 [Intel HD 4400] strongly irritating artefacts on 2560x1440 laptop display Martin Wilck
2015-01-28  9:45 ` Chris Wilson
2015-01-29 20:57   ` Martin Wilck
2015-01-29 21:47   ` Martin Wilck [this message]
2015-01-31 12:52     ` Martin Wilck
2015-01-31 15:36       ` Jani Nikula
2015-01-31 17:26         ` Martin Wilck
2015-01-28  9:45 ` Jani Nikula
2015-01-29 21:10   ` Martin Wilck

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