Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #1522922
  2. Comment #129

Comment 129 for bug 1522922

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kecsap (csaba-kertesz) wrote :

@John Smith: I have two older laptops with Intel chips, one Westmere and one Ivy Bridge architecture. Only one solution fixed the screen flickers on both laptop, installing the drm-intel-nightly kernel:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/drm-intel-nightly/current/

I use this suggested config for Xorg, but I don't think it has any effect:

Section "Device"
   Identifier "Intel Graphics"
   Driver "intel"
   Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
   Option "TearFree" "true"
   Option "DRI" "3"
EndSection

I tried many kernels versions, tinkering with the Xorg configm, but the nightly kernel was the real cure to use the intel driver in Xorg on my laptops.