Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #405425
  2. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 405425

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In , Chris Wilson (ickle) wrote :

(In reply to comment #28)
> I have a Dell Optiplex 960 which has a Q45 Express chipset.
>
> I am seeing similar flickering when I view a video at the following URL:
>
> http://www.wpix.com/sports/college-sports/
>
> On the right side, there is a Flash video. If I make that video fullscreen
> and play it, I get the flickering.
>
> The same computer can play other Flash videos in fullscreen mode and not
> have flickering issue.

Fortuitous. Flash does not employ synchronized updates to the scanout. This bug is purely about that the update of the rotated scanout is not synchronous even if the applications are requesting synchronous updates.