This problem affects me as well, but it happens only when closing the lid, docking the notebook, and then opening the lid when docked. If I do not dock/undock the notebook, the problem does not occur no matter how many times I open or close the lid. The problem did also never occur when closing the lid while docked, then undocking and opening the lid while undocked
The problem started appearing with 9.04 (upgrade from 8.04) and the problem is still present in 9.10 (upgraded from 9.04). In 9.04 I have found a workaround to the problem. When clicking any mouse button on the tray icon of Display preferences the blinking stopped. I had to click multiple times, because while blinking some events from the mouse are ignored (even movements). Besides that the blinking stopped, Gnome has lost the look&feel I have configured and it reverted back to the default gray configuration. Somewhat later I found out that what actually happened was, that process gnome-settings-daemon was killed due to the click on that icon. Killing the process by hand then also helped to stop the blinking (e.g. Ctr+Alt+F1; login; killall gnome-settings-daemon). The last time I checked this workaround was no loner working in 9.10, which leaves me no choice but to reboot when this occurs. This problem makes my notebook next to unusable at work, where I use the docking station. -- [i965gm] Closing and opening lid sometimes leads to screen ENDLESSLY BLINKING https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
