Same issue here on multiple dell latitudes E6540 laptops in company (using Ubuntu 14.04.5). And it does happen after resuming from a suspend. Almost every open application is affected with distorted/missing letters. Looks like http://askubuntu.com/questions/584922/how-do-i-fix-fonts-not-rendering- and-missing-letters (intel driver issue?). Only restarting lightdm (or logging out and in again), fixed the situation.
root@tom-laptop:/home/tdesloovere# lshw -sanitize -numeric -C display *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:416] vendor: Intel Corporation [8086] physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 06 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:33 memory:f5800000-f5bfffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64) root@tom-laptop:/home/tdesloovere# lspci -vvnn -d 8086:416 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0416] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:05be] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 33 Region 0: Memory at f5800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Region 2: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 4: I/O ports at f000 [size=64] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Address: fee00018 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features AFCap: TP+ FLR+ AFCtrl: FLR- AFStatus: TP- Kernel driver in use: i915 root@tom-laptop:/home/tdesloovere# dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg-video-intel-lts-xenial ii xserver-xorg-video-intel-lts-xenial 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1~trusty1 amd64 X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1573959 Title: On-screen text disappears after suspend To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1573959/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp