Guys, there is an entry on the Chromium site talking about xorg modesetting
vs intel xorg driver. By installing modesetting module and getting rid of
the intel driver, the flicker was gone completely on Ubuntu 16.04.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=606152#c73

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Sukttarb <email address hidden>
wrote:

> On my Dell XPS 13-9350, I had been running 4.4.0-38.57 for two weeks and
> continued to experience screen flash while using google-chrome-beta
> until updating this morning to 54.0.2840.50-1. No more flash. Halleluja!
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (1552304).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1554613
>
> Title:
>   Screen flickers on XPS 13 9350/9550 (Intel Skylake/Broadwell GPU)
>
> Status in Linux:
>   Fix Released
> Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>   *** Temporary workaround ***
>   Install Kernel from the following location:
>   - http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.6-yakkety/
>
>   OR
>   Perform the following:
>   - $ apt-add-repository "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/
> canonical-kernel-team/ppa/ubuntu yakkety main"
>   - $ echo -en "Package: *\nPin: release o=LP-PPA-canonical-kernel-team-ppa\nPin-Priority:
> -1\n" >> /etc/apt/preferences.d/canonical-kernel-team-ubuntu-ppa-yakkety
>   - $ apt update
>   - $ apt install linux-image-extra-4.6.0-6-generic
> linux-headers-4.6.0-6-generic linux-tools-4.6.0-6-generic
>   ```
>   There was a typo in instructions (/etc/preferences.d should have been
> /etc/apt/preferences.d).
>   As result you might have upgraded Linux META packages and therefor you
> won't receive proper upgrades of Xenial native Linux packages (hoping they
> will ever contain the fix).
>   I suggest you move /etc/preferences.d/canonical-kernel-team-ubuntu-ppa-yakkety
> to /etc/apt/preferences.d/ and downgrade related packages:
>   $ apt update
>   $ apt install linux-headers-generic/xenial-updates
> linux-tools-generic/xenial-updates linux-image-generic/xenial-updates
>   ```
>   ***
>
>   Please inspect duplicate reports for more details:
>       Bug #1522922
>       Bug #1535048
>       Bug #1552304
>       Bug #1555158
>       Bug #1561729
>       Bug #1565234
>       Bug #1568599
>       Bug #1573392
>
>   does not affect 4.4.0-8
>   affects 4.4.0-9 to 4.4.0-22
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
>   Package: linux-image-generic 4.4.0.11.12
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-8.23-generic 4.4.2
>   Uname: Linux 4.4.0-8-generic x86_64
>   ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
>   Architecture: amd64
>   AudioDevicesInUse:
>    USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
>    /dev/snd/controlC0:  tbonfort   1498 F.... pulseaudio
>   CurrentDesktop: KDE
>   Date: Tue Mar  8 09:57:12 2016
>   HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=3248e0d7-0dac-4ccc-8982-b5ac5ce6ed5e
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-07 (61 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64
> (20151021)
>   Lsusb:
>    Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
>    Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0c45:670c Microdia
>    Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0a5c:6412 Broadcom Corp.
>    Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>   MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9350
>   ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
>   ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-8-generic
> root=UUID=757547b8-d0e4-4eb8-8afd-920b743f99a4 ro quiet splash
> vt.handoff=7
>   RelatedPackageVersions:
>    linux-restricted-modules-4.4.0-8-generic N/A
>    linux-backports-modules-4.4.0-8-generic  N/A
>    linux-firmware                           1.156
>   SourcePackage: linux
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-02-28 (9 days ago)
>   dmi.bios.date: 01/08/2016
>   dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
>   dmi.bios.version: 1.2.3
>   dmi.board.name: 07TYC2
>   dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
>   dmi.board.version: A01
>   dmi.chassis.type: 9
>   dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
>   dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.2.3:bd01/08/2016:svnDellInc.:
> pnXPS139350:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn07TYC2:rvrA01:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
>   dmi.product.name: XPS 13 9350
>   dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
>
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