I've installed the following Mainline PPA kernel on today's Ubuntu MATE 16.10
* http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.6-rc7-yakkety/
All screen flicker is gone. Just running Ubuntu MATE 16.10, without this kernel upgrade, the flicker was still present.
I've installed the following Mainline PPA kernel on today's Ubuntu MATE 16.10
* http:// kernel. ubuntu. com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/ v4.6-rc7- yakkety/
All screen flicker is gone. Just running Ubuntu MATE 16.10, without this kernel upgrade, the flicker was still present.