GMA500 Flickering

sealanco · 2014-05-25 16:24:49

Hello! I have a laptop Insys DNote WVC03 that uses a Poulsbo GMA500 graphics card. The problem is that the screen is flickering all the time and I think it's a kernel issue because it flickers on TTY too. What can I do? Which info should I provide? Thank you!

clfarron4 · 2014-05-25 18:01:01

Including the word Intel will probably help us who don't know graphics card by their project names.

I assume you've gone through these Wiki pages: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/poulsbo and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics (ooh, the latter link says the Intel GMA 500 isn't supported by the Open Source drivers)

Could you please post kernel version and the contents of xorg.conf please?

sealanco · 2014-05-25 20:03:24

Here is the kernel version:
Linux atom 3.14.4-1-ARCH

I'm not using xorg.conf

Head_on_a_Stick · 2014-05-25 20:13:56

Arch doesn't use xorg.conf any more --- just individual .conf files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

clfarron4 · 2014-05-25 20:46:36

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Arch doesn't use xorg.conf any more --- just individual .conf files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

Forgot about that... Oh wait, I'm using AMD Catalyst, so that explains why I'm still using one.

OK, take two: @sealanco, are you using any files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ to configure your graphics card?

sealanco · 2014-05-26 09:43:57

clfarron4 I'm not using a config file for my graphics card in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
Anyway, I think it's a kernel problem because the flickering happens in TTY too.

This is the output of 'dmesg|grep gma'

[ 1.668478] gma500 0000:00:02.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1.668591] gma500 0000:00:02.0: GPU: power management timed out.
[ 2.127419] gma500 0000:00:02.0: trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0
[ 2.127499] gma500 0000:00:02.0: trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0
[ 2.697417] gma500 0000:00:02.0: fb0: psbdrmfb frame buffer device
[ 2.697423] gma500 0000:00:02.0: registered panic notifier
[ 2.697546] [drm] Initialized gma500 1.0.0 2011-06-06 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0

And the output of 'lsmod|grep gma'

gma500_gfx 156521 2
video 10428 1 gma500_gfx
i2c_algo_bit 4640 1 gma500_gfx
drm_kms_helper 32032 1 gma500_gfx
drm 196474 3 drm_kms_helper,gma500_gfx
i2c_core 22850 6 drm,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,gma500_gfx,videodev

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#1 2014-05-25 16:24:49

GMA500 Flickering

#2 2014-05-25 18:01:01

Re: GMA500 Flickering

#3 2014-05-25 20:03:24

Re: GMA500 Flickering

#4 2014-05-25 20:13:56

Re: GMA500 Flickering

#5 2014-05-25 20:46:36

Re: GMA500 Flickering

#6 2014-05-26 09:43:57

Re: GMA500 Flickering

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