Public bug reported: I've been experiencing pretty bad screen tearing on 17.10 on my XPS 13 9560 with Kaby Lake. I did not experience this on 16.04/16.10 and IIRC not even on 17.04.
After a lot of hit and trial, I was able to fix the issue completely by disabling Intel PSR mode in Grub config. Change `i915.enable_psr=1` to `i915.enable_psr=0` in `/boot/grub/grub.cfg` fixed the problem for me but I think this disables some power saving features. ** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1714749 Title: Screen tearing with when PSR is enabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1714749/+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