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Flickering Screen (External Monitor)

Bug #2064868 reported by GT on 2024-05-05

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I'm using Kubuntu 24 and my screen flickers occasionally when hovering on items in the task manager. Saw already similar complains about Ubuntu 24 with GNOME on Reddit and Askubuntu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+23ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-31.31-generic 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sun May 5 17:31:56 2024
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: noble
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] [8086:3e9b] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] [1028:0905]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-04-28 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20240425.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS 15 7590
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.8.0-31-generic root=UUID=78d1bfbf-4ec3-4b14-8400-2c63d24556ce ro quiet cryptdevice=UUID=333cc963-b69e-4fd8-8128-56e8cc67319d:luks-333cc963-b69e-4fd8-8128-56e8cc67319d root=/dev/mapper/luks-333cc963-b69e-4fd8-8128-56e8cc67319d splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 02/01/2024
dmi.bios.release: 1.27
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.27.0
dmi.board.name: 0CF6RR
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.27.0:bd02/01/2024:br1.27:svnDellInc.:pnXPS157590:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0CF6RR:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct10:cvr:sku0905:
dmi.product.family: XPS
dmi.product.name: XPS 15 7590
dmi.product.sku: 0905
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.120-2build1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 24.0.5-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:21.1.12-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:22.0.0-1build1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20210115-1build1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.17-2build1

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GT (the-gabornator) wrote on 2024-05-05:

CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (135.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (8.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgLog.txt Edit (30.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (20.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci-vt.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (905 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (11.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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ProcEnviron.txt Edit (323 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (8.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (13.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (342.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (63.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (65.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (18.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
acpidump.txt Edit (1.6 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (97.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) on 2024-05-05

affects:

ubuntu → xorg (Ubuntu)

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2024-05-14:

Thanks for the bug report. Please try adding this kernel parameter:

i915.enable_psr=0

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

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