Bug 831484 - xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.19.0-3 introduces bad screen flickering while running some games
Summary: xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.19.0-3 introduces bad screen flickering while running so...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intel
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-06-13 06:13 UTC by Scott R. Godin
Modified: 2013-02-13 08:23 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-02-13 08:23:34 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
/var/log/Xorg.0.log(.old) for comparison (12.89 KB, application/x-compressed-tar)
2012-06-13 06:13 UTC, Scott R. Godin
no flags Details
smolt profile (2.59 KB, text/plain)
2012-06-13 06:14 UTC, Scott R. Godin
no flags Details
Smolt Profile (2.59 KB, text/plain)
2012-06-13 06:16 UTC, Scott R. Godin
no flags Details

Description Scott R. Godin 2012-06-13 06:13:26 UTC
Created attachment 591358 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log(.old) for comparison

Description of problem:
running games such as glaxium or nexuiz under xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.19.0-3 results in wild flickering of the screen on the close order of 100 times per 10-12 seconds. highly visually disturbing. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.19.0-3

How reproducible:
every time


Additional info:
used yum downgrade to back up to previous release (xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.16.0-2) and problem goes away

will attach xorg.0.log(.old) for comparison purposes (.old has 2.19 driver, other has 2.16 driver) and smolt profile

Comment 1 Scott R. Godin 2012-06-13 06:14:13 UTC
Created attachment 591359 [details]
smolt profile

Comment 2 Scott R. Godin 2012-06-13 06:16:21 UTC
Created attachment 591360 [details]
Smolt Profile

smolt profile for additional info. let me know if anything else is required.

Comment 3 Klaus Lichtenwalder 2012-06-17 10:12:57 UTC
Same problem here on two machines. Since the update of xorg-x11-drv-intel the machine becomes unusable after xscreensaver kicked in (cinnamon sessions here). After downgrading xorg-x11-drv-intel via yum the system seems stable again
(smolt uuid: 5b8b26fb-f7c1-4a20-a773-24946944ac4c)

Comment 4 George Lebl 2012-06-19 18:55:52 UTC
Confirmed here. extreme penguin racing and open arena flicker. supertuxcarts doesn't flicker.

flicker goes away when not run in fullscreen mode.

running xfce here and compositing on/off makes no difference.

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