I found something interesting that may or may not be valuable. From what I can gather so far, we're dealing with two flicker issues. One affects only Ubuntu MATE, the other affects regular Ubuntu as well. For me, I've been able to work around the problem in Ubuntu MATE by disabling tlp.service and rebooting. After I do this, I no longer deal with any flickering at all whatsoever. This work around won't work for everyone, but if you are hitting the bug in Ubuntu MATE (since Ubuntu MATE features tlp.service by default) this may work for you.
Even though disabling tlp.service fixes it for me, this is still a kernel bug, because I can also fix this issue by side-loading an unsupported kernel without disabling tlp.service and that fixes it too. For whatever reason, tlp.service is triggering something in the kernel causing a flicker. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1522922 Title: Screen flickering in Intel i915 driver Status in Nouveau Xorg driver: Incomplete Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: There's an upstream bug reported here https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91393 that causes screen flickering when using the Intel i915 builtin driver (at resolutions lower than the maximal one). I think that it will be fixed in newer kernel versions, but for the time being, as reported here https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91393#c25 (and as personally tested) reverting those two commits fixes the problem. Would that be possible to release a fixed version for the 4.2.0 stream? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: linux-image-4.2.0-19-generic 4.2.0-19.23 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-19.23-generic 4.2.6 Uname: Linux 4.2.0-19-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: bettini 1378 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC1: bettini 1378 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Fri Dec 4 19:01:00 2015 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=7ddbc972-3ad6-40de-9313-2bb9395145f9 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-08 (210 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422) MachineType: Dell Inc. Dell Precision M3800 ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-19-generic root=UUID=dd2c7064-53b9-4720-96ab-5e8a3f2db3ea ro noprompt quiet splash vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-4.2.0-19-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-4.2.0-19-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.149.3 SourcePackage: linux UdevLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/udev' UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-11-07 (26 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 08/17/2015 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A10 dmi.board.name: Dell Precision M3800 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A10 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA10:bd08/17/2015:svnDellInc.:pnDellPrecisionM3800:pvrA10:rvnDellInc.:rnDellPrecisionM3800:rvrA10:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified: dmi.product.name: Dell Precision M3800 dmi.product.version: A10 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nouveau/+bug/1522922/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
