Re: [Notion-general] blinkin' n' thinkin'

[Wojtek A. <pen...@gm...>]

Ok solved, thanks Johannes, Arnout.
I followed Johannes' idea with drivers. Actually, I have ATI RAdeon,
not nvidia. But the idea of having 1000 packages put up automatically
by dist-upgrades caused me to check. Jeez, I had like drivers for
every card there was on the market since 1970s. So what I did was
remove xserver-xorg-video-* and KEEP xserver-xorg-video-radon. (It
removes the metapackage xorg-vide-ati, but heck.). No filickering
anymore.

So, to summarize, it is a driver issue, Arnout you can sleep soundly:)
Unfortunately, I do not know the REAL cause. namely, some conflict
must have occured that forbade my card to do some specific function
needed for smooth refresh. Hard to trace though. I don't even know
which combination caused the conflict, I removed like 30 packages
altogether, hard to say which one was problematic.

regards
wojtek


On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Johannes Segitz
<joh...@gm...> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Wojtek Aniszewski
> <pen...@gm...> wrote:
>> I have a problem with statusbar which notoriously "blinks" everytime
>> (it seems) it refreshes. At least, it occurs when I use more data
>> displayed on the bar.
>
> Do you use the nouveau driver for a nvidia card by any chance? I got
> the same problems
> because my xorg installation switched to nouveau during the
> dist-upgrade. I "resolved" it
> by installing the nvidia drivers.
>
> Johannes
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