Situation: the display of Zenbook UX303UA is flickering almost like here, but I do not get it in Youtube, only when resolving the new Google Plus website's community section (green one) in Chromium 51.x and Google Chrome 52.x but not in Firefox; and Ubuntu's documentation of Zenbooks does not mention the problem but it is hardware-specific (Intel), and internet-site specific because I can reproduce it only with Google Plus' website about communities.
Resolution options
- Doing
sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-intel
deletes the bug origin (xserver-...-intel
) and expresses the packagemodesetting
which is used by Ubuntu when no other option. No such a problem here. Without the package, however, you cannot do fixes of brightness adjustments with the file/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
for F5/F6 (here). -
Joakim's 4th proposal seems to work in
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
and install then back again intel drivers bysudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
. This proposal works with the brightness adjustments of F5/F6 but complicates in Matlab here. Here we do not understand why it works, maybe some conflict is disabling the bug, particularly associated withintel_backlight
# Joakim Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "sna" Option "TearFree" "true" Option "DRI" "3" Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight" EndSection
Best option is (2) by including all features (no flickering and adjustment possibility with 20-intel.conf
for F5/F6 about brightness, …
However, we do not understand why (2) works.
Characteristics
xdpyinfo|grep resolution
returnsresolution: 96x96 dots per inch
so the pixel size is good for Xorg-server (here)-
lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D'
gives00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 07) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Skylake Integrated Graphics Kernel driver in use: i915_bpo
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I updated to Linux kernel 4.7 by wgetting generic packages of amd64 and headers (3 files) here. Output: the amount of flickering maybe decreased but still some flickering every 10-15 seconds.
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Internet browser specific in Chromium 51.x and Google Chrome 52.x because the problem does not reproduce in Firefox.
- Hardware-specific (Intel).
- Internet site specific because I can reproduce it only with the new Google Plus of Communities in Zenbook. I cannot reproduce it in Youtube, like in the other bug report of Ubuntu listed below.
Unsuccessful Resolution attempts
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Ticket in Chromium Ticket Tracker here with the issue number 640932.
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Joakim's answer unsuccessful. My
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
. Blinking/flickering stays the same after the reboot.# https://askubuntu.com/a/816703/25388 Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "sna" Option "TearFree" "true" Option "DRI" "3" EndSection
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Joakim's second proposal unsuccesful. Relevant part of my
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
. Blinking/flickering stays the same after the reboot. I did not purge the proposel intel package.# https://askubuntu.com/a/816703/25388 Section "Device" Identifier "card0" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "sna" Option "TearFree" "true" Option "DRI" "3" Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" EndSection
Hardware: Asus Zenbook UX303UA R4028T
System: Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit
GPU: Intel integrated
Linux kernel: 4.4, 4.7.0-040700-generic
Internet browsers: Chromium 51.0.2704.79 64 bit, Google Chrome 52.0.2743.116 64-bit
Test site: the new version of Google Plus etc in any communities (green version)
Related bugs in Ubuntu: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome
Hardware's Documentation: Ubuntu's AsusZenbook
Best Answer
It's a bug in Xorg 1.18 that 16.04 ships with.
You can fix it like so:
Paste this:
Save (CTRL + O) and reboot.
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1586539 and https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=606152
If this does not work, try this:
sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-intel
sudo rm /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
(for those who created this file before)reboot
If this also does not work, please install xserver-xorg-video-intel again.