The display flickers often

[ubuntosaure]

Binary package hint: xorg

The display flickers often
And sometimes the screen went black, I can not do anything.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 7 13:58:10 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 910
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic root=UUID=f64a28bd-c6e0-4be6-a8f7-5cec4e77c4e3 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu7
 libdrm2 2.4.13-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: xorg
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1730): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1730): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1769): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1787): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (bluetooth-applet:1775): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed
dmi.bios.date: 03/05/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A05
dmi.board.name: CN0J14
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A05
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A05
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA05:bd03/05/2009:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron910:pvrA05:rvnDellInc.:rnCN0J14:rvrA05:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA05:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 910
dmi.product.version: A05
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-11-generic

[lspci]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03)
     Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02b0]

[RK (kubuntu-rk)]

I have frequent flickers here as well, using nvidia drivers, but no blanc screen. So when it flickers, you never know whether it is just a flicker or today's crash...

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I'm not entirely certain what you mean by "flickers often" as you provided such a short description of the problem, but there is a known bug 441638 which has similar symptoms so I'll mark this a dupe of that. If that's incorrect, please fix the description to be more precise.