← Back to team overview

asus-ul30 team mailing list archive

Re: Asus UL20A - Flicker on lower half of screen

 

ccing to the mailing list. yes, it would be great to have all relevant
information in a wiki page :-)

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Ryan Porter <gimmelinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After updating from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 I noticed random flickers
> appearing on the lower half of the screen. Apparently this is a common
> problem with Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSPS7y6MCXc
>
> This issue has been brought up here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/549989
> And here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-
> intel/+bug/538648
>
> The workaround mentioned in the bug report #538648 (adding
> i915.powersave=0 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX) seemed to work for me.
>
> Perhaps this issue should be noted on the AsusUL wiki?
> --
> This message was sent from Launchpad by
> Ryan Porter (https://launchpad.net/~gimmelinux)
> to each member of the ASUS U/UL Series laptop team using the "Contact this
> team" link on the ASUS U/UL Series laptop team page
> (https://launchpad.net/~asus-ul30).
> For more information see
> https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople
>