Bug 584095

Summary: KMS:RV530:Radeon X1600 Screen flickers a couple of times after entering X (and also when running xrandr)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ondrej Zary <linux>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: samuel-rhbugs, s.tousignant, vedran, xgl-maint
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Description Ondrej Zary 2010-04-20 18:45:22 UTC
Description of problem:
When entering X and after login, the screen flickers a couple of times with Sapphire Radeon X1600Pro card. Also when xrandr is run (without any parameters), the same flicker is present.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
desktop-i386-20100418.17
kernel-2.6.33.1-24.fc13.i686
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.0-0.23.20100219gite68d3a389.fc13.i686

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot desktop-i386-20100418.17
2. run xrandr
  
Actual results:
Screen flickers a couple of times during startup.

Expected results:
Flicker-free boot process.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ondrej Zary 2010-04-20 18:45:45 UTC
Created attachment 407894 [details]
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Comment 2 Ondrej Zary 2010-04-20 18:46:08 UTC
Created attachment 407895 [details]
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Comment 3 Vedran Miletić 2010-05-24 18:02:43 UTC
Improving summary.

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Comment 4 s.tousignant 2010-05-27 22:18:35 UTC
I have the same problem and also the screen flicker every time I start a wine application, when I start mplayer or when I start totem. With wine it is the most annoying.

I've got a ATI Technologies Inc RV530 [Radeon X1600].

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-07-30 11:25:40 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

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Comment 7 Samuel Sieb 2016-02-03 03:58:19 UTC
In case anyone comes across this bug in the future, try adding radeon.new_pll=0 to the kernel command line.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/543045 for more info.