Thanks for the link, Shanmuhanathan T! The YouTube video for the link provided by Shanmuhanathan T seems to demonstrate the problem at hand. A direct link to the video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSPS7y6MCXc. Because of the nature of the problem, you need to very carefully observe the lower portion of the screen shown in the video - the area around the blue comment header line - while the clip is playing to see the flicker.
I am now trying out the workaround mentioned in Shanmuhanathan T's link, i.e., adding i915.powersave=0 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub and then sudo update-grub. Of course, I will need a few days to observe the effect and even then I will only be able to check whether the flickers still occur in that time period. It will not be possible to say that the flickers are gone for good because they don't occur with any regularity anyway. I will report back with my findings. Saurav -- random flickers on ubuntu lucid desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574449 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
