Comment 7 for bug 1627214

On the bright side, upstream has ameliorated this issue considerably in drm-intel-nightly and the vanilla 4.9-rc1 kernels.

So far the upstream bug has suggested two patches for kernel 4.8.x that reduce the flickering - with those patches, it only occurs a few times a day for me instead of every few seconds or minutes. Maybe we could cherry-pick those patches?