Bug 13917 - screen flickers after text tty/vt is entered
Summary: screen flickers after text tty/vt is entered
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 12294
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/Radeon (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: high major
Assignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+so...
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Reported: 2008-01-03 18:33 UTC by Misha Koshelev
Modified: 2008-01-03 19:23 UTC (History)
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Attachments
Xorg.log (64.99 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-01-03 18:34 UTC, Misha Koshelev
no flags Details

Description Misha Koshelev 2008-01-03 18:33:21 UTC
I was asked to report from upstream (Ubuntu). Tested on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgOnTheEdge package  Xorg.0.log.1:6.7.197+git20080103.c6522088-0ubuntu0tormod, problem still exists.

In short, any switch to a text VT (Ctrl-Alt-Fn or even just stopping X server) causes flicker (vertical refresh?) which then persists after any other VT switches. Makes X pretty much unusable. Did not exist in 1:6.6.3-2ubuntu6
(Feisty Fawn version). 

I will post new Xorg.0.log here. Much more info at the Ubuntu bug report which is at the URL above. Let me know if you need something else.

Misha
Comment 1 Misha Koshelev 2008-01-03 18:34:37 UTC
Created attachment 13504 [details]
Xorg.log

Here is Xorg.log with specified version of package. Flicker starts _immediately_ upon entering text VT (log consists of boot up and log in into gdm, switch to VT with Ctrl-Alt-F1, then I switched back Ctrl-Alt-F7).
Comment 2 Alex Deucher 2008-01-03 19:11:19 UTC
Did this ever work with any of the other 6.7.19x releases?  Does reverting commit 653da558148cc601bc1f80253e92ef98c75ef37a fix it?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 12294 ***
Comment 3 Misha Koshelev 2008-01-03 19:22:24 UTC
This did not work in the 1:6.7.195-1ubuntu2 release as well, so probably correctly this is a duplicate of that bug. I hope it gets fixed.

I will have to look into compiling from head and reverting that commit if you still think this is relevant, but it will take me a while.

Misha
Comment 4 Alex Deucher 2008-01-03 19:23:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> This did not work in the 1:6.7.195-1ubuntu2 release as well, so probably
> correctly this is a duplicate of that bug. I hope it gets fixed.

if it was busted in .195 then that commit it irrelevant.


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