Hooray. Verified fixed. booted into 3.16.0-14-generic and all seems well.
Thank you. for future reference, dmesg shows me now: $ dmesg | grep "\[drm" [ 1.455768] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 1.677013] [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 2048M [ 1.677015] [drm] Replacing VGA console driver [ 1.700102] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013). [ 1.700103] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query. [ 1.884038] [drm] GMBUS [i915 gmbus dpb] timed out, falling back to bit banging on pin 5 [ 1.989868] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0 -- 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/1355196 Title: compiz fails with intel_do_flush_locked failed: Invalid argument To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1355196/+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