Bug 493054 - Display flickering issues on RHEL 5.2
Summary: Display flickering issues on RHEL 5.2
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: xorg-x11-drv-i810
Version: 5.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: desktop-bugs@redhat.com
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Depends On: 454279
Blocks: 499522 531112
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Reported: 2009-03-31 13:51 UTC by Alan Matsuoka
Modified: 2018-10-20 03:41 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 454279
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Last Closed: 2009-10-29 19:49:40 UTC
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Comment 1 Alan Matsuoka 2009-03-31 13:53:58 UTC 
Oops.. lost some comments:

This issue is being watched since Matthew Yates is on vacation.  The customer has returned with the following update:

Still a problem with RHEL5.3

Using intel driver:
kernel crashes on first startup of X

Using i810 driver:
Chances of proper output being displayed seem to be high, but when I Ctrl+alt+F1, run random stuff, then ctrl+alt+F7, screen went back to flickering colors that were in the last frame buffer,  Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill X didn't resolve the issue, neither did running init 3, then init 5.  Had to reboot to get a normal display again.

Using vesa driver:
Chances of proper output being displayed seemed intermittent maybe roughly 80% successful, then an entire screen of a specific color.


Running `system-config-display --reconfig` (after deleting /etc/X11/xorg.conf):
Still causes crash (I assume because it tries to load the "intel" driver.)

Xorg Packages in use:
xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.21.el5
xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.1.1-48.52.el5
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-48.52.el5
Comment 2 Alan Matsuoka 2009-03-31 13:54:38 UTC 
Too late for 5.4. Should be 5.5
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