Just wondering what causes my screen to flicker, sometimes incidentally, at other times insanely running LMDE/cinnamon..
Often it happens when starting with the laptop (Pavilion g7 w/HD4000 + HD7670) and it does not occur anymore when I start a game like lbreakout2.. if the flickering was really bad those game screens might bump a little bit but not near as annoying and frustrating as happens on the desktop running windowed programs.
Because I tried to get rid of it I tried installing the closed ATI drivers, using the sgfxi script, which did not succeed but instead made the system completely unworkable instead. So I had to reinstall LMDE today and of course the flickering is back again..
Is this a common issue?
I never had this running Mint Olivia Cinnamon, but it was introduced after installing Petra Cinnamon..
Screen flickers
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Re: Screen flickers
If you don't mind helping sgfxi author in dealing with this issue and making sgfxi better, then please report it at this forum.Trash wrote:I tried installing the closed ATI drivers, using the sgfxi script, which did not succeed but instead made the system completely unworkable instead.
Before reporting, first update sgfxi as root:
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sgfxi -U
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sgfxi --debugger