Ubuntu

display is showing flicker

Bug #1836061 reported by Subhra Samir Kundu on 2019-07-10

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu	Expired	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

the display on my dell vostro 3478 with i3 8th gen and ubuntu is showing some flickering issues with the display

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-54.58~16.04.1-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-54-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Jul 10 18:25:52 2019
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 [8086:5917] (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0841]
MachineType: Dell Inc. Vostro 3478
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-54-generic root=UUID=c34d2521-acf3-43bb-9196-3f02b7144aba ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 03/01/2018
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.3.0
dmi.board.name: 052WRP
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.3.0:bd03/01/2018:svnDellInc.:pnVostro3478:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn052WRP:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.family: Vostro
dmi.product.name: Vostro 3478
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.3+16.04.20180221-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.91-2~16.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core N/A
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau N/A
xserver.bootTime: Tue Jul 9 11:40:31 2019
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.1~16.04.2
xserver.video_driver: modeset

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Subhra Samir Kundu (s2k-thegeek) wrote on 2019-07-10:

BootLog.txt Edit (5.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (117.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgLog.txt Edit (34.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmDisplayLog.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmLog.txt Edit (5.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (10.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (456 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
MonitorsUser.xml.txt Edit (645 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (5.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (109 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (7.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (164.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UnitySupportTest.txt Edit (627 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (47.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (50.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (16.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (24.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xserver.devices.txt Edit (730 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xserver.outputs.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2019-07-11:

Please take a video of the problem using a phone or camera and attach it here.

affects:	xorg (Ubuntu) → ubuntu
Changed in ubuntu:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2019-09-09:

[Expired for Ubuntu because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubuntu:
status:	Incomplete → Expired

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