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khuutantai

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Registered: 2013-11-21

Posts: 3

Screen flicker, turn black, disapear when using xf86-video-intel

Hi all,

Currently i have installed archlinux with xfce4 on my laptop, but my laptop have VGA intel and ATI display controller, when i install xf86-video-intel then when i'm in xfce4 or slim, switching to virtual terminal cause my screen to flicker violently then disapear, it may reappear when i move my mouse but it keep flashing. The problem gone when i'm install the xf86-video-ati, but i want to use the intergrated intel card to save power . Have been looking around but still found no solution yet.

my lspci

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09)
04:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Opal XT [Radeon R7 M265] (rev ff)

Thanks

mychris

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From: Munich

Registered: 2012-09-15

Posts: 68

Re: Screen flicker, turn black, disapear when using xf86-video-intel

What have you tried so far? Did you read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AT … e_Graphics?

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: Screen flicker, turn black, disapear when using xf86-video-intel

Pick your thread:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=197854
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=197427

And there's a lot more than that. While they all describe slightly different things, the cause is the same - Intel driver bug. Use the lts kernel for now.

Last edited by Gusar (2015-05-29 18:42:10)

khuutantai

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Registered: 2013-11-21

Posts: 3

Re: Screen flicker, turn black, disapear when using xf86-video-intel

But with external screen, everything work fine, it's only happen on my laptop screen, my friend use antergos and everything is fine too. pretty weird, my system is already up to date, his antergos system too, we both using the same laptop, the same video driver

Last edited by khuutantai (2015-06-04 04:44:38)

khuutantai

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Registered: 2013-11-21

Posts: 3

Re: Screen flicker, turn black, disapear when using xf86-video-intel

Turn back to UXA fixed the problem