Public bug reported:

The monitor screen blinks quite often, and syslog is crowded with these 
messages:
[drm:radeon_vga_detect [radeon]] *ERROR* VGA-1: probed a monitor but no|invalid 
EDID
i2c i2c-0: sendbytes: NAK bailout
The "VGA-1: probed a monitor but no|invalid EDID" message appears about every 
10 seconds, and the other message much more often.
These messages also flood the virtual terminals, making them unusable.
This is Kubuntu 18.04 LTS 64 bits, kernel 4.15.0-43-generic. But the bug was 
present in Kubuntu 16.04 64 bits as well, except for the blinking screen. So it 
got worse now.
Kubuntu 13.10 32 bits, with xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:7.2.0-0ubuntu10, and 
kernel 3.11.0-12-generic, using the "nomodeset" kernel boot parameter, didn't 
have any of these problems.
The video driver/module in use is "radeon", the default one. The package is 
xserver-xorg-video-radeon 18.0.1-1 .
The onboard video card is a Radeon 3000 .
lspci reports 
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] 
RS780L [Radeon 3000]
Editing /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-radeon.conf to force the use of the 
"fbdev" driver/module doesn't make the blinkings nor the error messages 
disappear, but when additionally using "nomodeset" at the Kernel command line, 
both the blinkings and the error messages go away. But then the 640x480 
resolution is the only one available.
I'm attaching a text file generated with the command 
ubuntu-bug --save xserver-xorg-video-radeon_apport-bug-report.txt 
xserver-xorg-video-radeon
Please make the solution available for Kubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Thanks in advance.

** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Attachment added: "apport-bug was run as root against 
xserver-xorg-video-radeon"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1811486/+attachment/5228568/+files/xserver-xorg-video-radeon_apport-bug-report.txt

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Title:
  Screen blinks often; "invalid EDID" and "NAK bailout" messages -
  Radeon 3000

Status in xserver-xorg-video-ati package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The monitor screen blinks quite often, and syslog is crowded with these 
messages:
  [drm:radeon_vga_detect [radeon]] *ERROR* VGA-1: probed a monitor but 
no|invalid EDID
  i2c i2c-0: sendbytes: NAK bailout
  The "VGA-1: probed a monitor but no|invalid EDID" message appears about every 
10 seconds, and the other message much more often.
  These messages also flood the virtual terminals, making them unusable.
  This is Kubuntu 18.04 LTS 64 bits, kernel 4.15.0-43-generic. But the bug was 
present in Kubuntu 16.04 64 bits as well, except for the blinking screen. So it 
got worse now.
  Kubuntu 13.10 32 bits, with xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:7.2.0-0ubuntu10, and 
kernel 3.11.0-12-generic, using the "nomodeset" kernel boot parameter, didn't 
have any of these problems.
  The video driver/module in use is "radeon", the default one. The package is 
xserver-xorg-video-radeon 18.0.1-1 .
  The onboard video card is a Radeon 3000 .
  lspci reports 
  01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] 
RS780L [Radeon 3000]
  Editing /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-radeon.conf to force the use of the 
"fbdev" driver/module doesn't make the blinkings nor the error messages 
disappear, but when additionally using "nomodeset" at the Kernel command line, 
both the blinkings and the error messages go away. But then the 640x480 
resolution is the only one available.
  I'm attaching a text file generated with the command 
  ubuntu-bug --save xserver-xorg-video-radeon_apport-bug-report.txt 
xserver-xorg-video-radeon
  Please make the solution available for Kubuntu 18.04 LTS.
  Thanks in advance.

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