On Tue Sep 13, 2022 at 2:52 AM UTC, James Cook wrote: > On Sun Sep 11, 2022 at 3:50 AM UTC, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 03:18:47AM +0000, James Cook wrote: > > > >Synopsis: X11 keeps showing images from a few seconds ago > > > >Category: kernel > > > >Environment: > > > System : OpenBSD 7.2 > > > Details : OpenBSD 7.2-beta (GENERIC.MP) #718: Fri Sep 9 14:46:40 > > > MDT 2022 > > > > > > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP > > > > > > Architecture: OpenBSD.amd64 > > > Machine : amd64 > > > >Description: > > > After the latest sysupgrade -s, every few seconds, the contents of my > > > display briefly goes back to what it was a few seconds ago. > > > > What were you running before this? > > OpenBSD 7.2-beta (GENERIC.MP) #714: Fri Sep 2 15:20:16 MDT 2022 > > > some defaults for power saving features recently changed > > > > does this diff change what you see? > > It seems to fix the problem, but I'm not certain, because the behaviour > started to become much less obvious after I sent this bug report (but > before I tried your diff). I would see the occasional short flicker > rather than reversions lasting nearly a second. With your diff I haven't > seen any flickers. > > Going back to the Sep 9 snapshot kernel (which I was using when I filied > this bug) I tried to find things that would trigger the problem the reliably, > so I could try the same things with your diff, but I couldn't find a way > to trigger it. (Mostly I just tried vigorously scrolling in Firefox > assuming taxing the graphics card would trigger it, but that didn't > work.) > > -- > James
At this point I'm 95% sure the diff fixed the problem. I have been running the new kernel for a few days with no flickering, and whenever I go back to /obsd to compare, I eventually see a flicker or two. -- James
