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[Jay <jay.kinzer@xxxxxxxxx>]

The "workaround" that Id2ndR posted does work in Lucid. What I did,
until this bug is fixed, is created a bash script that runs on startup
that executes that command. It's a horrible waste of CPU cycles... but
hey, the screen isn't flickering.

The bash script, called stop-flicker.sh, looks like:

#!/bin/bash
while true ; do echo "toto" > /dev/null ; done

I then gave the script execute privileges:

sudo chmod +x stop-flicker.sh

You could execute this every time your screen flickers... but instead I
added a custom startup application, System -> Preferences -> Startup
Applications -> Add

I gave it the name Stop Flicker and gave it the command /home/$user
/stop-flicker.sh

Where $user is your user name...

This is hacky... but it works. Please fix this bug soon!

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Lucid - Screen flickering with ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576181
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