** Summary changed:
- [gm45] Screen flickers
+ [gm45] Screen flickers (Needs i915.powersave=0)
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: xorg
Fresh install Ubuntu 10.04LTS Lucid Lynx 64bit Dell Inspiron 1545 Laptop
Screen flickers every couple of minutes for like a second sometimes longer,
bottom half mostly .(it crashed the computer once)
I started a blog and found there were others with the same problem
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1473580
Cant find a solution to this problem.
- here some info on me
- pe...@peter-laptop:~$ sudo lspci
- 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory
Controller Hub (rev 07)
- 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
- 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
- 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #4 (rev 03)
- 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #5 (rev 03)
- 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #6 (rev 03)
- 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #2 (rev 03)
- 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 03)
- 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1
(rev 03)
- 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2
(rev 03)
- 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3
(rev 03)
- 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5
(rev 03)
- 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 03)
- 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 03)
- 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 03)
- 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #1 (rev 03)
- 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
- 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
- 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller
(rev 03)
- 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev
03)
- 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast
Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
- 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
- pe...@peter-laptop:~$
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- pe...@peter-laptop:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
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- X.Org X Server 1.7.6
- Release Date: 2010-03-17
- X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
- Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-27-server x86_64 Ubuntu
- Current Operating System: Linux peter-laptop 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP
Wed Apr 28 13:28:05 UTC 2010 x86_64
- Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic
root=UUID=1aff2380-116e-49c4-8561-6c4e8987bea2 ro quiet splash
- Build Date: 23 April 2010 05:11:46PM
- xorg-server 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7 (Bryce Harrington br...@ubuntu.com)
- Current version of pixman: 0.16.4
- Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
- to make sure that you have the latest version.
- Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
- (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
- (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
- (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Tue May 11 11:17:57 2010
- (==) Using config directory: /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d
- (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section.
- (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
- (**) |--Screen Default Screen Section (0)
- (**) | |--Monitor default monitor
- (==) No monitor specified for screen Default Screen Section.
- Using a default monitor configuration.
- (==) Automatically adding devices
- (==) Automatically enabling devices
- (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist.
- Entry deleted from font path.
- (==) FontPath set to:
- /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
- /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
- /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
- /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
- /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
- /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
- /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
- built-ins
- (==) ModulePath set to /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules,/usr/lib/xorg/modules
- (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
- If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable
AutoAddDevices.
- (II) Loader magic: 0x7ca300
- (II) Module ABI versions:
- X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
- X.Org Video Driver: 6.0
- X.Org XInput driver : 7.0
- X.Org Server Extension : 2.0
