This bug still hasn't been fixed 7 months later. I just switched to the
hwe kernel of 16.04 and I am likewise affected.
This may have been mentioned in upstream but the flickering happens only
when framebuffer hasn't changed. If you constantly move your mouse,
it'll stop.
--
You received this
On the bright side, upstream has ameliorated this issue considerably in
drm-intel-nightly and the vanilla 4.9-rc1 kernels.
So far the upstream bug has suggested two patches for kernel 4.8.x that
reduce the flickering - with those patches, it only occurs a few times a
day for me instead of every
This is *not* a duplicate of bug #1626935. For a start, it occurs
whether the monitor is plugged in at reboot or not, and it refers to a
different kind of flickering. I believe I've also seen the flickering
referred to in that bug, and it's a constant flickering of part or all
of the screen,
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1626935 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1626935
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a
duplicate of bug 1626935, so it is being marked as such. Please
It's not fixed in the 4.8.0-generic kernel. Additionally, that kernel
shows flickering artefact windows when using two monitors, as reported
here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97596
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #97596
Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer
to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest
v4.8 kernel[0].
If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following
tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.
If the mainline kernel does not fix
