Explicitly loading the intel driver in xorg.conf and enabling DRI3 appears to have worked around this issue in Chrome/Chromium, using intel's latest driver distribution.
[ 3026.999] (II) intel(0): Using Kernel Mode Setting driver: i915, version 1.6.0 20160711 [ 3026.999] (II) intel(0): SNA compiled: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160706-1ubuntu1 (Timo Aaltonen <tjaal...@debian.org>) Please see comment #31 in the chromium bug report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=683486#c31 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1628866 Title: After upgrading to 16.10, Chrome has become unusable because of extremely slow update Status in X.Org X server: Unknown Status in xorg package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Both Chrome and Firefox actually were extremely slow regarding visual update (1 second after clicking a tab, lagging when entering text). Examining this old report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu- gnome/+bug/1386721, I tried disbling bootloader graphics and VESA framebuffer, which suddenly made firefox behave as it used to, but chrome shows no improvement. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-17.19-generic 4.8.0-rc7 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-17-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity_support_test.0: ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: compiz CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0' CompositorUnredirectFSW: true CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7 Date: Thu Sep 29 12:19:56 2016 DistUpgraded: 2016-09-28 22:48:16,082 DEBUG icon theme changed, re-reading DistroCodename: yakkety DistroVariant: ubuntu ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 5500 [8086:1616] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo HD Graphics 5500 [17aa:2227] InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-28 (153 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1) MachineType: LENOVO 20BTS26N00 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-17-generic root=UUID=96f314f8-7e1b-4d70-b372-84febb180710 ro vesafb.invalid=1 quiet splash SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-09-28 (0 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 03/12/2015 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: N14ET28W (1.06 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 20BTS26N00 dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Defined dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: None dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrN14ET28W(1.06):bd03/12/2015:svnLENOVO:pn20BTS26N00:pvrThinkPadX1Carbon3rd:rvnLENOVO:rn20BTS26N00:rvrNotDefined:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNone: dmi.product.name: 20BTS26N00 dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 3rd dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.13.0+16.10.20160818.2-0ubuntu2 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.70-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 12.0.3-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 12.0.3-1ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.4-1ubuntu6 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.2-1ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.1-1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160706-1ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-2 xserver.bootTime: Thu Sep 29 12:15:18 2016 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.version: 2:1.18.4-1ubuntu6 xserver.video_driver: modeset To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/1628866/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
