Alexandre Rossi wrote on 12/11/17 10:05: >> could you show your Xorg.0.log files? > > Here it is attached. > >> The Kaby Lake GPU needs some firmware. Therefore, what is the print out of >> grep firmware /var/log/dmesg > > $ sudo dmesg | grep firmware > [ 9.165601] i915 0000:00:02.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware > i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_01.bin > [ 9.166202] [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware > i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_01.bin (v1.1) >
This all looks quite normal, AFAICT. Some driver version are even at the newest available version. These artefacts appear in background images? Have you tried another image viewer? Have you tried a more recent GNU/Linux live distribution like Knoppix? Regards, jvp.