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  1. Bug #311895
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Comment 75 for bug 311895

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In , Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

I applied the latest patch (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=24375) to 2.6.3 (what we have in Ubuntu Jaunty).

I threw everything at it which I could find: running glxgears under a load of 6.6 (having an rsync and jigdo in the background), playing a fullscreen video while booting a live system under kvm, suspend/resume, everything works. I haven't seen a single flickering so far. This even fixes the flickering of glxgears when running under EXA (we didn't switch to UXA in Ubuntu yet, since it still causes too many crashes and problems).

I will run with this patch for a while, to see the long-term behaviour. Before, I got the flickering/hang after running for some hours, or some time after suspend (see bug 20520). Perhaps bug 20520 is even just another consequence of this one, although it happened even with FramebufferCompression off.

I'll report back in a couple of days with the long-term results.

Kudos, Jesse! You made my day!