display is flickering while playing video and internet surfing

Bug #1597039 reported by Ashish
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xorg (Ubuntu)
Expired
Medium
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Bug Description

Display is flickering, partial screen gets blue when i move the video player window. Also when i browse in google chrome for some websites display flickering observed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3
Uname: Linux 4.7.0-040700rc5-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
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: Tue Jun 28 23:30:09 2016
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: I just need to know a workaround
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics [8086:1916] (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Skylake Integrated Graphics [103c:80ff]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-06-22 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 138a:003f Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS495 Fingerprint Reader
 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0a2a Intel Corp.
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04f2:b51c Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: HP HP ProBook 430 G3
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.7.0-040700rc5-generic root=UUID=0a250ac5-2e6e-4d23-9485-e104fe7f5a86 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/18/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: HP
dmi.bios.version: N78 Ver. 01.06
dmi.board.name: 80FF
dmi.board.vendor: HP
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 16.20
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 5CD6183KFJ
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: HP
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHP:bvrN78Ver.01.06:bd12/18/2015:svnHP:pnHPProBook430G3:pvr:rvnHP:rn80FF:rvrKBCVersion16.20:cvnHP:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP ProBook 430 G3
dmi.sys.vendor: HP
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160526-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.16.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.2.0-1ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.2.0-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2
xserver.bootTime: Tue Jun 28 11:29:00 2016
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 5676
 vendor AUO
xserver.version: 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.2

Revision history for this message
Ashish (ashish-khatri-967) wrote :
description: updated
penalvch (penalvch)
tags: added: bios-outdated-1.11
Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Ashish (ashish-khatri-967) wrote :

I have updated the bios , but there is no improvement in the issue.
the output of the command sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date is below
N78 Ver. 01.11
05/09/2016

Please help to resolve the problem
thanks

Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
Revision history for this message
penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

Ashish, to see if this is already resolved, could you please test http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ and advise to the results?

tags: added: latest-bios-1.11
removed: bios-outdated-1.11
Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
importance: Low → Medium
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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