Screen flickering linux mint
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Ask Ubuntu users link it as a visual reference when describing or comparing screen flickering problems on Intel and hybrid-graphics laptops.
Recommended by 0 people across 0 different months, 2016 to 2017.
What it is
A 13-second screen recording by designernasser that shows a laptop display flickering under Linux Mint. It has no narration or description and works only as a visual example of the glitch.
What people said
Cites nasser alshammari · 2016-04 · Ask Ubuntu · on “Screen flickering”
I have an MSI GS60 with an intel broadwell i7-5700HQ CPU and hybrid graphics (nvidia GTX 970M). The screen flickers so badly as shown in this video (seconds 0:03 and 0:08): [this video] I know this is not a hardware problem since the issue doesn't happen on Windows 10 at all. I've tried many kernels and many distros and many drivers with no avail. I'm using the nvidia-352 driver with bumblebee right now. I'm not even sure if it's a graphics issue or a power issue or something else. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Specs: ~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Host Bridge - DMI (rev 0a) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 0
Cites Paweł Gościcki · 2016-09 · Ask Ubuntu · on “Ubuntu 16.04 Skylake 6th Generation Screen Flickering”
Here's what I had to do to eliminate screen tearing and flickering in my Ubuntu 16.04: sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel libva-intel-vaapi-driver Create and edit ~/.drirc : <device screen="0" driver="dri2"> <application name="Default"> <option name="vblank_mode" value="0"/> </application> </device> Create and edit /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" EndSection The above almost does the trick. However, there is a persistent Kernel bug in recent Kernel versions (up from 4.0 until the latest 4.8), which produces flickering exactly like in this video
Cites firefly2517 · 2017-07 · Ask Ubuntu · on “Ubuntu 16.04/17.04/17.10 & CENTOS 6,7: screen flickering and random shutdowns (Lenovo Thinkpad T410)”
I ask the same question a couple of weeks ago but the question was closed because it was related to Ubuntu 17.10 which is under development. However, I have the same (and worse) issues for the LTS 16.04 and for the new Ubuntu 17.04 or 17.10. Therefore I am asking this question again and because other people also report similar behaviour I wanted to discuss this issue in details. First you can find the NEW POST and below the INITIAL POST. Please note that the NEW POST mostly refer to the INITIAL POST and that there has be four EDITS on the INITIAL POST. EDIT 1: providing a part of the system and temperatur sensor logs EDIT 2: name confusion between Gnome and Unity EDIT 3: Installation of Cent