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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #1710051
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1710051

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Andrew Montalenti (andrewm-l) wrote :

For the help of other users, I just want to mention that in Ubuntu 17.04, I ended up switching back to stable xorg and *removing* xserver-xorg-video-intel, as suggested in some online documentation, in order to force the modesetting driver to run. I'd see modesetting and glamoregl modules loading in the Xorg.0.log file.

Then, I disabled hardware acceleration in Chrome, using the official setting available in Chrome settings. (Not via a flag.) Search for "acceleration" in chrome://settings and then un-check that option.

With these two corrective actions, I seem to have a stable machine, even when running Chrome day-in day-out for a long time in gnome-shell. I also can't force a crash with Facebook 3D images any longer. This is probably the right set of recommendations for users with my Lenovo X1C model or similar Skylake & GPU hardware.