Affects me too. There are a lot people outside this thread having this
annoying flickering:
https://www.google.de/search?q=--disable-gpu-driver-bug-
workarounds+flicker_rd=ssl#q=%22--disable-gpu-driver-bug-
workarounds%22+flicker+chrome
So i think this bug should categorized to high-prio!
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Title:
Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome
Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
On a fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04 I noticed major screen
flickering issues in Chromium and Google Chrome browsers. Since this
never happened in Ubuntu 15.10 with exactly the same Google Chrome
binary, I believe, bug is caused by something that was added/updated
in 16.04. I came across some discussions where different people
suggested that it is related to new X.Org version.
Here's a video to show what is happening:
https://youtu.be/l21WsKz3fZc?t=45s
I could fix this flickering with --disable-gpu-compositing switch, but
this slows down page drawing significantly so it can't be considered a
workaround. There is also a Chromium bug report:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=606152, but I
don't think they will fix an Ubuntu-specific bug.
Update: this indeed happens only when browser window is maximized.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3
Uname: Linux 4.6.0-040600-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
BootLog:
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
Date: Sat May 28 00:01:20 2016
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
vboxhost, 5.0.20, 4.4.0-22-generic, x86_64: installed
vboxhost, 5.0.20, 4.6.0-040600-generic, x86_64: installed
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a2e]
(rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics
Controller [1043:13bd]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-01 (26 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
(20160420.1)
MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. UX301LAA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.6.0-040600-generic
root=UUID=172b2d49-444a-466b-ab91-b74605125b29 ro quiet splash rootfstype=ext4
vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/05/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: UX301LAA.211
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: UX301LAA
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrUX301LAA.211:bd06/05/2015:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnUX301LAA:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnUX301LAA:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: UX301LAA
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.2.0-1ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.2.0-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel
2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
1:1.0.12-1build2
xserver.bootTime: Sun May 22 23:28:15 2016
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
product id5126
vendor SHP
xserver.version: 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2
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