Mesa driver bug

[Jinith Jayan]

Hey,

I've been using linux lite 3.8 for around 4 months now. Before 3 months or so there came an update of linux kernal 4.4.112 to 4.4.178. After the update the mesa driver was updated
from 17.2.4 to 18.0.5.

The issue is that now when i play any video in vlc there is occasional fluttering which is kinda bugging.. It worked perfect with Mesa 17.2.4.

I tried changing the kernal as I thought mesa drivers come with kernals (not very linux savvy ;D) but even after changing kernal the mesa version remained the same and videos still flutters.

I did search on google about updating the mesa driver, but all are telling to add a "ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates", but there is no new updates & I'm still in mesa driver 18.0.5

Please help to fix the issue. There is no new updates so can anyone help to downgrade the mesa driver to 17.2.4 (if thats the best solution)  

[Valtam]

If this is, as you have labeled it a Mesa bug, should you not inform them of the 'bug'? We don't develop Mesa.

[trinidad]

You might want to use Lite Tweaks and try a newer kernel if one is available not an older one. By the way 18.x is not the newest version of MESA. It's well into the 19.x series now. 32bit stuff is hit or miss though. Your problem may also be related to RAM and available memory space above or below 1gig. (probably only 256) You can adjust RAM starved systems to be more efficient by adjusting swappiness upward (higher number) in combination with adjusting VFS cache pressure downward (lower number). Applications will load slower but not hog RAM with open window graphics building in the background.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/t...-debian-10

TC