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According to Dag-Erling Coïdan  Smørgrav:
> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes:
> > probably revert whatever change caused this to happen by default since
> > it's very evil and it didn't use to happen.  Telling people to rebuild
> > kernels with "PLEASE_DONT_FLICKER_AND_DRIVE_ME_CRAZY" is not much of
> > an option since most folks don't RTFM anyway and they'll just conclude
> > (rightly) that our console driver is broken.
> 
> I agree that "flicker countermeasures" should be the default, but
> please leave in a knob for turning them off when they're not needed.

Exactly WHAT is it that makes the option needed at all? I mean the code works
just fine with no-flicker... Why would you want the extra code that is turned
off then you run in no-flicker? What does it do, since it's not needed?

  /Mikael