On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 01:00:58 -0500, Peter Colberg wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel > Version: 2:2.99.917+git20160127-1+b1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > Since upgrading to the above version, I am experiencing severe display > corruption on a Sandy Bridge GPU when using the chromium browser. > Other graphical applications (xterm, evince, gimp) are not affected. > > The corruption occurs when the window spans the full width of the > screen, and disappears when reducing the window to half the width. > (I am using the awesome tiling window manager.) Please see the > attached screenshots of the full width versus half width case. > > The corruption is transient in nature, i.e., when interacting with > the window by moving the cursor or entering text into the address bar, > existing artifacts flicker or vanish and new artifacts emerge. The > issue is present regardless of whether 2D GPU acceleration is enabled > or disabled in the browser. > > Downgrading to xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917-2 fixes the issue. > > Please let me know how I can help debugging this regression. > Please report this upstream following https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation/how-report-bugs and let us know the bug number for tracking.
Thanks, Julien
