Plasma screen flickering on lower resolutions after upgrade to Kubuntu 15.10

[Lorenzo Bettini]

On my laptop, Dell m3800, the default resolution 3200x1800 makes everything unreadable, so I need to keep the resolution lower, i.e., 1920x1080. Everything worked fine in Kubuntu 15.04. After the upgrade to Kubuntu 15.10, if I turn the resolution to 1920x1080 (or any lower resolution than the default one), the screen starts to flickering often (with the default resolution 3200x1800 this does not happen).

I tried to turn off compositing, using Xrender, etc. nothing seems to work.

OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 11.0.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
Driver: Intel
GPU class: Haswell
OpenGL version: 3.0
GLSL version: 1.30
Mesa version: 11.0.2
X server version: 1.17.2
Linux kernel version: 4.2
Requires strict binding: yes
GLSL shaders: yes
Texture NPOT support: yes
Virtual Machine: no

[Lorenzo Bettini (bettini)]

Some additional information: it might be a kernel issue (see my comment on the other bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1509556/comments/44)

[Lorenzo Bettini (bettini)]

It looks like it's a bug in the DRM/Intel driver: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91393

[Perec Fix (perecfx)]

It is also affects Ubuntu 15.10 Unity desktop on all resolutions. I've tried 4.4, 4.3 and 4.2 kernels. Same flickering.
The only workaround for me for now is to use 3.19 kernel. It works fine with this.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Scarlett Gately Moore (scarlettmoore)]

This bug is very old, if it is still an issue please update the bug with information from a supported release.