On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 03:18:53PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 01:44:32PM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: > > Today I switched my desktop PC, with Xfce, to OpenBSD amd64 6.6. > > > > Since the upgrade the display started to flickers. It seems to me that the > > desktop background flashes over the various windows. > > > > I vaguely remember that i read something about this problem in a message in > > these mailings a couple months ago, with someone suggesting a solution. I > > searched these mailing archives but I wasn't able to find that message. > > > > Someone can direct me to the suggested solution? > > > > Thanks. > > > > P.S. > > Here is the dmesg: > > I am also seeing this. > It could be related to radeondrm since we are both using it.
Something else which could be relevant is that xfce now ships its own screensaver. This screensaver shows the desktop background by default. I already tried disabling it in settings but the xfce4-screensaver process remains active even when the screensaver is disabled.
