linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.31 -> 2.6.32 Sound and video regressions

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Date:	Sat, 5 Dec 2009 21:42:06 +0700
From:	Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@...il.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...ealbox.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tiwai@...e.de,
	jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org, intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.31 -> 2.6.32 Sound and video regressions

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...ealbox.com> wrote:
> Emmanuel Benisty wrote:
>> I just wanted to report 2 regressions I am having now with 2.6.32.
>>
>> Video
>> Screen is flickering/glitching like crazy in X. It happens whether
>> randomly or when conky is refreshed, when the mouse cursor moves and
>> like hell when a page is loading in the browser. Not so easy to
>> describe this issue.
>> Xorg.0.log is attached.
>> (I've uploaded an utterly crappy mobile phone video if needed but I
>> doubt this could be of any help, anyway, it's here
>> http://omploader.org/vMngzcA/Xorg.tar.bz2 )
>
> That sounds like FIFO underruns, which (I think) were introduced when
> self-refresh was enabled but should have been fixed.  I personally have no
> clue how to fix them, but if you told the Intel people what kind of chip you
> have (lspci output), they can probably fix it.  (cc added)

Thanks for your reply Andy. lspci output is attached.

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