Pasting some of my commentary here.... After further discussion with the team, I'm told this is a known issue with Skylake. This should be resolved in v4.9 and backports have been submitted to v4.8:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel- gfx/2016-October/109936.html I have asked sabdfl to proceed with testing the Yakkety HWE kernel to confirm this is indeed resolved for Claire. Note, I specficially requested testing with the linux-hwe-edge 4.8.0-28.30~16.04.1 from our Canonical Kernel Team PPA since it contains the i915 patches referenced above. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-kernel-team/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install linux-generic-hwe-16.04-edge -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1643566 Title: [i915_bpo] Intermittent display outage with external monitor To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1643566/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
