Bug#822225: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: White glow and flicker on edges of LVDS display on boot

[Julien Cristau]

Control: reassign -1 src:linux 4.4.6-1~bpo8+1

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:26:04 +0900, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On 22.04.2016 17:17, thomas wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> > Version: 1:7.7.0-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> >    * What led up to the situation?
> >    I installed the open radeon driver package instead of the closed one
> > 
> >    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> >      ineffective)?
> >    Boot the system
> > 
> >    * What was the outcome of this action?
> >    Increasing white glow on the edges of the built in display, a freeze,
> >    some flicker and finally the normal boot process continues
> > 
> >    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> >    A normal boot process without the glitches
> > 
> > I am not sure if this is the fault of the display driver,
> 
> Agreed, however...
> 
> > but since it looks like a display (or maybe backlight?) glitch, I
> > though it was best to report this under the video driver package.
> 
> ... the display driver is actually the kernel driver with KMS, so this
> report should be reassigned to the kernel package.
> 
Reassigning.

Cheers,
Julien

> 
> > I am worried that it might damage something hardware related, because
> > it really doesn't look healthy to me.
> 
> FWIW, IME it's quite unlikely that this kind of issue could result in
> hardware damage.
> 
> 
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