Bug 587558

Summary: Flicker display on Intel i915
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Pavel Alexeev <pahan>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intelAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 13CC: ajax, anton, dougsland, erecio, gansalmon, itamar, jia.yiyu, jonathan, kernel-maint, mcepl, pahan, xgl-maint
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: 2.6.36 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Pavel Alexeev 2010-04-30 09:26:59 UTC
Description of problem:
With new driver display is very flicker. It work perfectly with kernel 2.6.33.1-24.fc13.i686 (previous kernel kernel-2.6.33.2-41.fc13.i686 is panic on early stage). It is flicker on boot and even after login.

My card on Acer Aspire notebook:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 033e
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 27
        Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
        Region 2: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 4: I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
        Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
                Address: fee0a00c  Data: 4181
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
                AFCap: TP+ FLR+
                AFCtrl: FLR-
                AFStatus: TP-
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.33.2-57.fc13.i686

How reproducible:
Always

Please say what additional information required.

Comment 1 Pavel Alexeev 2010-05-06 06:53:32 UTC
The same after update to kernel kernel-2.6.33.3-79.fc13.i686.
nomodset kernel option does not help also.

Comment 2 Yiyu Jia 2010-07-01 14:49:04 UTC
Is there anybody know how to solve this? I think Bug 585673 is related to this? When will a new kernel to be released?

expecting this will be solved soon then I can go back to my fedora 13 system again. screen flicker really hurts my eyesight. 

Thanks and regards,

I put my system info as attachment in bug 585673 .  

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585673

Comment 3 Pavel Alexeev 2010-08-20 08:33:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> expecting this will be solved soon then I can go back to my fedora 13 system
> again. screen flicker really hurts my eyesight. 
As temporary workaround until problem have not fixed you can use 2.6.33.1* kernel.

Comment 4 Chuck Ebbert 2010-08-21 09:51:39 UTC
Can people who are reporting this problem please provide the output of the command 'lspci -nn'.

Comment 5 Pavel Alexeev 2010-08-23 12:37:09 UTC
Off course, please:

# lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b09] (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b29] (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 05)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1692] (rev 01)
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 02)

Comment 6 EMR_Fedora 2010-11-05 17:58:17 UTC
Same problem here since upgrading from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13... dzang, and thought by waiting until F14 comes out all the bugs would be ironed out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd2Qk0YP76o is a video of the problem I am experiencing... flicker when switching from window to window, cannot use compiz, etc. Please help, I need to start using my machine again at some point.

lspci -nn:

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller [8086:2e10] (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2e12] (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2e13] (rev 03)
00:03.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:2e14] (rev 03)
00:03.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PT IDER Controller [8086:2e16] (rev 03)
00:03.3 Serial controller [0700]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Serial KT Controller [8086:2e17] (rev 03)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10de] (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:3a67] (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:3a68] (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:3a69] (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a6c] (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:3a6e] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:3a70] (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:3a78] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a64] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a65] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:3a66] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a6a] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev a2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801JDO (ICH10DO) LPC Interface Controller [8086:3a14] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3a02] (rev 02)

Comment 7 Matěj Cepl 2010-11-07 23:15:23 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please add drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line, restart computer, and attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log)
* output of the dmesg command, and
* system log (/var/log/messages)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 8 Pavel Alexeev 2010-11-08 08:24:32 UTC
Unfortunately now I have not this notebook anymore.
But, as stated in some similar bug report, it was start work around first rc kernel 2.6.36 from rawhide.

Comment 9 Matěj Cepl 2010-11-08 15:09:09 UTC
Thank you for letting us know.