i915 flickering [was: mmotm 2010-09-22-16-11 uploaded]

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>]

On 09/23/2010 01:12 AM, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2010-09-22-16-11 has been uploaded to

Hi, it introduced a regression against 2010-09-15-16-21 in i915. The
screen, especially in thunderbird and firefox screen elements, flickers.
Is this known/is there a patch for this already?

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated
Graphics Controller
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42
        Memory at feb80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at fea00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
        Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: i915

thanks,
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js