This bug also affects me on both trust and utopic. For both unity and xfce. I have attached some screenshots I have taken over the past few days. The non-rendering of characters remains until I reboot. The duplicated characters or noise can go away after a redraw, but they come back until a reboot.
$ sudo lspci -v 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 5036 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 61 Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 3000 [size=64] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: i915 $ uname -a Linux pada 3.16.0-31-generic #43~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 10 20:13:38 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ** Attachment added: "screenshots of graphics corruption" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1342675/+attachment/4353351/+files/corruption-screenshots.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1342675 Title: Random characters in screen text suddenly disappear To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1342675/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs