Bug#770790: random/intermittent black screen generally affects 3.16 of radeonhd

2015-02-02 Thread Tuxo Holic
okay ... Ben, that small patch in attachment #163891 does indeed fix the screen flickering for me: I built three versions of radeon.ko against 3.16.7-ckt2 from debian/testing: 1) vanilla version: reproducible flickering, it's even easier to reproduce by quickly dragging a medium sized

Bug#770790: random/intermittent black screen generally affects 3.16 of radeonhd

2015-02-01 Thread Tuxo Holic
Agreed , that patch has been superseded by a newer version [1] I'll try that one against current linux source in testing and report back. [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83461#c27

Bug#770790: random/intermittent black screen generally affects 3.16 of radeonhd

2015-01-17 Thread Tuxo Holic
+ 1 for this bug from another RS880 / G785 IGP user: Using Jessie with 3.16.4 amd64 kernel I get random blank screens for 2 seconds with an 1080p ACER LCD connected to the DVI or HDMI input (monitor supports both inputs, as does my AsRock mainboard) Kernel 3.14 in Jessie was not affected by