Just some updated information that I hope is useful. This issue is still occurring. I understand it may be fixed going forward from 16.10 but I know 16.04 LTS will be around for a long time!
Any chance Ubuntu Xorg package maintainers can reach out to their upstream? See these bugs for more info as well: Chromium Bug here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=606152 Freedesktop Bug here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94987 I can replicate with: Ubuntu 16.04.1 (xenial) Chrome 55.0.2883.87 Kernel: 3.10.18 X.Org X Server 1.18.4 xorg-server 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.2 Current version of pixman: 0.33.6 MESA info: Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer): Vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center (0x8086) Device: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Bay Trail (0xf31) Version: 11.2.0 Accelerated: yes Video memory: 1536MB Unified memory: yes Preferred profile: core (0x1) Max core profile version: 3.3 Max compat profile version: 3.0 Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1 Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0 Related package information: http://pastebin.com/6A5ebWTJ Video information: *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 0e width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:104 memory:d0000000-d03fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:1000(size=8) -- 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/1586539 Title: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/1586539/+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
