screen flicker

[tari3x]

The following thread describes a fix to a screen flicker issue that I'm experiencing with 4.10.1-3.g8c10701-default:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=498451

Is this fix something that can be propagated via linux-samus, or does it affect code that needs to be fixed in kernel proper?

[nickjwhite]

I have found there was flicker whenever I used mpv in fullscreen. I tried switching to different kernels, which didn't make a difference.

I then tried removing the 'Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"' line from the xorg 20-intel.conf file, and it seems to have completely solved the issue for me. I'm using Debian Stretch; as this sets what options the 'intel' xorg driver uses, I'm guessing this may have worked better with earlier Debian versions. I haven't tested much yet, but glxgears and xash3d seem to be performing much the same, so I don't think this is now running with no/worse acceleration.