L220x flickering with new 2008 MacBook Pro

hi there,
today i was pretty happy when i received my l220x. but after i started working with it i saw horrible flickering on the screen. how does this appear. the flickering started and held on for a while then stopped a few seconds later it started again.  on the delivered cd is no driver for mac so my question is do i need a driver for my macbook pro (latestmodel). if no how do i get this flickering away?
thx. c.

I use the screen with my older 2008 macbook pro and there is no flickering whatsoever. Your MBP shouldn't need any special driver, so I think you're dealing with a display defect. Do you have bootcamp with windows installed? If you do, I would boot into windows and give it a try to see if that helps. If it doesn't, just call Lenovo and I'm sure they'll take care of it.
Let us know how it goes and good luck!

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