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 Ubuntu-X, 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/1628866/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
