I tried the glamor / tearfree - advice, but: with NO success; still flickering.
And, btw.: I don't think the flickering is an Xorg-issue; 
it starts in "textmode" (!!) as soon as the radeon-kernel-driver loads. I think 
the kernel-driver
does NOT read Xorg-configurations.

Just for fun, I've tested different systems:
System              kernel      radeon.ko  result
UBUNTU-14.04.5      3.13.0-164  2.36.0     O.K
puppy_slacko-6.3.2  3.14.55     2.37.0     O.K.
UBCD                3.16.0      2.39.0     FLICKER
UBUNTU 14.04.5      4.4.0-133   2.43.0     FLICKER
UBUNTU 18.04.1      4.15.0-42   2.50.0     FLICKER

So, I think the problem starts with a modification made in radeon.ko
version 2.37.0 --> 2.39.0

Additionally I found a "kind of work-around": switch the mode several times!
thus:
- ignore flickering; start grafic mode
- xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1440x900; sleep 2; xrandr --output LVDS --mode 
1680x1050;
- try that 2 ... 5 times until flickering stops!

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