screen flickers when using Wine or a few other programs.

[Mac_Attack18]

I think it has to do with my video card drivers. I don't even know what drivers I have or how to find out I do know my card is some integrated Intel card. but that's it idk how to find out what drivers I have and where to get the right ones. idk how to describe it.

How do I found out what card i have?
Where do I get the right drivers for my Video Card?

[jayd512]

How do I found out what card i have?

Just open up a terminal and type lspci to show a list of all detected hardware.

Where do I get the right drivers for my Video Card?

Depending on the card, you can either get them from the Vendors website, or from your distros package manager.
Post the output of the command I gave you.

[Mac_Attack18]

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705_2 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
06:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
06:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
06:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
06:09.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
06:09.4 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCI6411/6421/6611/6621/7411/7421/7611/7621 Secure Digital Controller

[jayd512]

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)

There's your card. It's a pretty standard card, so you should already have everything you need installed. Can you post the output of lsmod

[Mac_Attack18]

alright here is the output from lsmod I have no clue what this command does. lol maybe its not drivers. what do you think it could be?

Module Size Used by
michael_mic 10496 0
arc4 9856 0
ecb 10752 0
ieee80211_crypt_tkip 16896 0
aes_i586 15744 0
aes_generic 35880 1 aes_i586
ieee80211_crypt_ccmp 13440 0
isofs 39844 0
udf 87716 0
crc_itu_t 10112 1 udf
binfmt_misc 16776 1
i915 67844 2
drm 96424 3 i915
ppdev 15620 0
bridge 56212 0
stp 10500 1 bridge
bnep 20224 2
vboxnetadp 90088 0
vboxnetflt 96904 0
vboxdrv 132008 1 vboxnetflt
input_polldev 11912 0
joydev 18496 0
sbp2 30476 0
lp 17156 0
parport 42220 2 ppdev,lp
pcmcia 44748 0
snd_intel8x0 37532 3
snd_ac97_codec 112292 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 9856 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 46336 0
snd_mixer_oss 22656 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 83076 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 10756 0
snd_seq_oss 37760 0
snd_seq_midi 14336 0
snd_rawmidi 29696 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 15104 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 56880 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_timer 29704 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14988 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
psmouse 61972 0
snd 62756 16 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_ oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_ti mer,snd_seq_device
tifm_7xx1 13824 0
iTCO_wdt 19108 0
iTCO_vendor_support 11652 1 iTCO_wdt
yenta_socket 32396 1
rsrc_nonstatic 19328 1 yenta_socket
serio_raw 13444 0
pcspkr 10496 0
sdhci_pci 15232 0
sdhci 23940 1 sdhci_pci
soundcore 15200 1 snd
tifm_core 15900 1 tifm_7xx1
ipw2200 151112 0
pcmcia_core 43540 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
snd_page_alloc 16904 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
intel_agp 34108 1
agpgart 42696 3 drm,intel_agp
ieee80211 38344 1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt 13444 3 ieee80211_crypt_tkip,ieee80211_crypt_ccmp,ieee8021 1
video 25360 0
output 11008 1 video
usbhid 42336 0
ohci1394 38576 0
ieee1394 94660 2 sbp2,ohci1394
tg3 131204 0
fbcon 46112 0
tileblit 10752 1 fbcon
font 16384 1 fbcon
bitblit 13824 1 fbcon
softcursor 9984 1 bitblit

[jayd512]

lsmod gives a list of all kernal modules that are currently running.
And it looks like the module for your card is already loaded, here:

i915 67844 2

So your graphics should be okay.
Are you experiencing issues only in WINE programs? Or are there also native apps that are affected.
I ask because programs running under WINE can be a hit & miss situation.

[Mac_Attack18]

hmmm I remember seeing it before in Gnome I couldn't tell you where other then wine. I know i had the same problem when i tried the KDE desktop manager. switching desktops and starting a few programs gave me the flickering So i went back to Gnome.

Let me clarify Flickering. I don't mean the screen changes brightness or turns off the background image along with icons jump around and flash in different location the icon themselves don't move just a picture of them.

[jayd512]

Hmmm... sounds odd.
Can you post your xorg file?

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Linux is case sensitive. That's a capital X.

By the way, can you say which programs are actually giving this flicker when you start them?

[D-cat]

Flickering video with Wine is not abnormal. The translation between windows code to Linux compatible rendering tends to cause v-sync and refresh issues. Considering the job it's doing, it actually works quite well.

The following assumes you're using Jaunty Jackalope (9.04)

As for other flickering or glitches, this is a known problem with the Intel driver. The devs tried to improve the features with it in the 9.04 release, but the buggy driver turned out to be worse than it was before. They're still working on it (9.10 is supposedly going to have a more stable Intel driver). Meanwhile, you can try reverting back to the older (still buggy, but less so) Intel driver.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTart...telDriverTo2.4

[Mac_Attack18]

ohhh thanks. it also happened while using KDE desktop. The flickering never bothered me that much until i tried using KDE. I cant remember any programs in ubuntu that did it.

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection