Open-Source Radeon Graphics Have Some Improvements On Linux 3.17

[agd5f]

Nice to have improvements but please could one of the devs fix the flickering when uvd is changing clock speeds. Also i think it would be nice if the message in the journal is shorter when this happens.

Remove radeon.dpm=1 from your grub config. The dpm debugging output is only enabled when you force the dpm module option.

[89c51]

Remove radeon.dpm=1 from your grub config. The dpm debugging output is only enabled when you force the dpm module option.

Thanks for that. Now the flickering thing

[agd5f]

Thanks for that. Now the flickering thing

Have you opened a bug?

[89c51]

Have you opened a bug?

No. I don't think something like" My screen flickers when a video starts (Youtube, vimeo, vine, instagram) and uvd clocks change powerstage" would cut it in the mesa bugtracker.

[agd5f]

No. I don't think something like" My screen flickers when a video starts (Youtube, vimeo, vine, instagram) and uvd clocks change powerstage" would cut it in the mesa bugtracker.

Why wouldn't that be a valid bug report? Make sure to attach your xorg log and dmesg output as well.

[89c51]

Why wouldn't that be a valid bug report? Make sure to attach your xorg log and dmesg output as well.

Well mesa is a highly technical place. I really don't feel comfortable submitting bugs on mesa or the kernel.

Submitted anyway.

[ua=42]

Looks like the https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79980 for radeon si has a set of patches to fix it now.
Hopefully it will make it into 3.17 and be backported to 3.16.