[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

That's a kernel change which is included in v4.10. Closing as fixed, on 16.04 the hwe-16.04 kernel will be updated to it before 16.04.3, and before that happens you can use the -edge kernel which is on v4.10 already. ** Package changed: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu) **

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

** Changed in: oem-priority Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: oem-priority Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Changed in: oem-priority Assignee: (unassigned) => Julian Liu (julian-liu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

** Also affects: oem-priority Importance: Undecided Status: New -- 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/1586539 Title: Major screen flickering in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

The Xorg team people believe they have resolved this now: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94987 commit 7aa6ca61ee5546d74b76610894924cdb0d4a1af0 Author: Chris Wilson Date: Mon Nov 7 16:52:04 2016 + drm/i915: Mark CPU cache as dirty when used for

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

** Changed in: xorg-server Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- 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/1586539 Title: Major screen flickering in Chromium

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

I've done the same here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1666994 -- 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/1586539 Title: Major screen

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

I was reading Brandon's (maceach-b) bug report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1657875). Besides the very entertaining flaming of Christopher (penalvch) by Brandon over there, I've found out in that report that this has been fixed in the newer Xorg stack, which can be

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

** Changed in: xorg-server Status: Unknown => Confirmed ** Changed in: xorg-server Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

Gakaza (gakaza), to track your hardware, it will help immensely if you filed a new report with Ubuntu by ensuring you have the package xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information running the following from a terminal: ubuntu-bug xorg

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

Hello guys, does this only affect Unbuntu 16.04? I have seen my Ubuntu 14.04 Chromium having the same issue shown in the same video that Vasya Pupkin (the user of the original post) posted. I just happened to have my Chromium flickering whenever I'm watching YouTube videos or sometimes even pdf

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

Christopher M. Penalver (penalvch), why do we both need to file a new report? What exactly is wrong with this one? Anyways, here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1657875 I don't have time to go back and forth on this as I have a lot to do daily, even the weekends. I just

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

One thing I found during troubleshooting - for my hardware at least the fix in #8: Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "sna" Option "TearFree" "true" Option "DRI" "3" EndSection For me adding the Option "DRI" "3 line caused Chrome to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

Brandon MacEachern (maceach-b) / agoodm (alan-goodmanemail), so your hardware may be tracked, it will help immensely if you filed a new report with Ubuntu by ensuring you have the package xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

Vasya Pupkin, to clarify, if you undid your WORKAROUND, and use UXA instead of SNA, does this also provide another WORKAROUND? ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete ** Tags added: needs-zesty-test -- You received this bug notification because you

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

1 fixes this for me with Ubuntu 16.04 on Thinkpad X250 with the i7 CPU. -- 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/1586539 Title: Major screen flickering in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

Yes as a first responder I would like to see this fixed in 16.04. My radio equipment only supports LTS releases and has no support for 16.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

Just some updated information that I hope is useful. This issue is still occurring. I understand it may be fixed going forward from 16.10 but I know 16.04 LTS will be around for a long time! Any chance Ubuntu Xorg package maintainers can reach out to their upstream? See these bugs for more

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

Masi: I think you misunderstood what I meant :) The issue / workaround is not related to Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight" but to: Option "TearFree" "true" Option "DRI" "3" The reason it was not working for you before, was that you had "Section "Device" two times, so

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

Origin of the bug: xserver-xorg-video-intel 1) Adjustment in `/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf/20-intel.conf` when the bug does not occur in the internet browsers: # Joakim Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "sna" Option

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

It affects also non-maximised windows. Related: http://askubuntu.com/q/816631/25388 -- 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/1586539 Title: Major screen

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

** Description changed: On a fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04 I noticed major screen flickering issues in Chromium and Google Chrome browsers. Since this never happened in Ubuntu 15.10 with exactly the same Google Chrome binary, I believe, bug is caused by something that was

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

I had the same problem of screen flickering or tearing, not only in Chrome but also in wine Warcraft III in opengl mode(D3D mode works fine), and by removing package xserver-xorg-video-intel as #11 gave, every thing just works perfectly so far. I use this link to test,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

I had alot of glitches (not using chrome, but on the desktop, unity) using modesetting :/ Had to revert back to sna + config. I guess maybe unity is not optimised for modesetting? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

Looks like this issue will never be fixed because no one cares about xf86-video-intel. Newer version of Ubuntu and Debian distributions switched to xf86-video-modesetting, more info can be found here: http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Ubuntu-Debian-Abandon- Intel-DDX So the solution is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

This looks like a proper solution: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=606152#c73 -- 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/1586539 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

Thank you Joakim. Fix works perfectly. -- 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/1586539 Title: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome Status in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

New and better fix if you still want to use SNA, insted of UXA. sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "sna" Option "TearFree""true" Option "DRI""3"

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

** Description changed: On a fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04 I noticed major screen flickering issues in Chromium and Google Chrome browsers. Since this never happened in Ubuntu 15.10 with exactly the same Google Chrome binary, I believe, bug is caused by something that was

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

The xorg folks are aware of this too: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94987 ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #94987 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94987 ** Also affects: xorg-server via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94987

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

joakimk...@gmail.com posted a real workaround on chromium bug tracker: === sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf Paste this: Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "uxa" EndSection Save and reboot. === This works for me. -- You

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

Affects me too. There are a lot people outside this thread having this annoying flickering: https://www.google.de/search?q=--disable-gpu-driver-bug- workarounds+flicker_rd=ssl#q=%22--disable-gpu-driver-bug- workarounds%22+flicker+chrome So i think this bug should categorized to high-prio! --

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Manuel (marsbellini) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1586539 Title: Major screen flickering in Chromium and

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

** Description changed: On a fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04 I noticed major screen flickering issues in Chromium and Google Chrome browsers. Since this never happened in Ubuntu 15.10 with exactly the same Google Chrome binary, I believe, bug is caused by something that was

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1586539 Title: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

It flickers too in facebook videos -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1586539 Title: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

Affects me. Intel GPU, and seems to only affect maximized windows. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1586539 Title: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1586539