Created attachment 35972 [details] [review] Xorg.0.log Machine is an Acer Aspire L5100 with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ running a 64 bits debian sid. The machine is a small factor desktop machine designed around laptop components, so the graphic card is an integrated radeon x1200. When running a linux vanilla kernel 2.6.34, the screen flickers all the time making the machine unusable, while with kernel 2.6.33 such "flick to black" event occured from time to time but most of the time the desktop was correctly displayed. radeon.new_pll=0 doesn't solve the problem radeon.nomodeset=0 does The problem was bisected to commit 383be5d1789d9a7a2e77dca1cb0aca89507d069e The following packages version are installed: xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6 xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.7-1 xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.13.0-2 Please find attached Xorg.0.log and dmesg for that machine (when booted on 2.6.34 with no radeon option).
Created attachment 35973 [details] dmesg
Can you dump the following regs using avivotool in both kms and ums? You can get avivotool here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied/radeontool/ and most distros package it. e.g., avivotool regmatch 0x0400 >> kms.out avivotool regmatch 0x0404 >> kms.out avivotool regmatch 0x0430 >> kms.out avivotool regmatch 0x0438 >> kms.out avivotool regmatch 0x043c >> kms.out avivotool regmatch 0x0450 >> kms.out avivotool regmatch 0x0410 >> kms.out avivotool regmatch 0x0414 >> kms.out avivotool regmatch 0x0434 >> kms.out avivotool regmatch 0x0440 >> kms.out avivotool regmatch 0x0444 >> kms.out avivotool regmatch 0x0454 >> kms.out
Created attachment 36005 [details] avivotool dumps with kms (v2.6.34)
Created attachment 36006 [details] avivotool dumps with ums (v2.6.34 radeon.modeset=0)
Created attachment 36167 [details] [review] possible fix Does this drm kernel patch help?
Thanks Alex: I applied the patch on top of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git and it seems to fix the "flicker all the time issue" for me.
I've sent it to Dave for inclusion in the kernel.
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