I have to agree with Bernd and John. The problems I'm experiencing to my understanding match the description of this report and the many screenshots people attached here perfectly. And they persist with the most current packages in the official repositories. It may be due to a lack of technical understanding on my side, but I don't understand how this issue could be regarded as resolved.
People already reported that the rendering and font issues don't occur in 15.04. But I'm using LTS for a reason. And it's not like Intel's HD 5500 would be some obscure, negligible piece of hardware. But if for whatever reason this issue should not be regarded as important enough to get further investigation, it would be nice to know, just to make an informed decision. Because in that case I would probably prefer switching to 15.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1432194 Title: Graphics unstable on Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 using Intel HD Graphics 5500 Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel source package in Utopic: Incomplete Bug description: Trying to achieve: Get a more stable graphics environment up and running Steps to take: basic ubtuntu 14.04 install. Boot up and run for a few minutes and then ... What happens: After running for a few minutes the graphics gets flacky. What should happen: Graphics should not get flaky. I have just installed ubuntu 14.04 on my new thinkpad t450s. Everything basically works, but something is very flaky about my keyboard or display or both. After running for awhile some apps (E.g., thunderbird and sometimes emacs for example) will display garbage. If I refresh by moving the screen around or changing buffers/tabs/etc. they can often recover. I see that there is an [Intel(R) Graphics Installer for Linux* 1.0.7](https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/2014/intelr-graphics- installer-linux-1.0.7). I am leery about just loading this and running it. Any suggestions about how I should proceed? $ sudo lshw -c video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 09 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:63 memory:e0000000-e0ffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:3000(size=64) $ modinfo i915 | head filename: /lib/modules/3.16.0-31-generic/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko license: GPL and additional rights description: Intel Graphics author: Tungsten Graphics, Inc. srcversion: 9929027A8A6F05972AD6986 alias: pci:v00008086d000022B3sv*sd*bc03sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000022B2sv*sd*bc03sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000022B1sv*sd*bc03sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d000022B0sv*sd*bc03sc*i* alias: pci:v00008086d0000162Dsv*sd*bc03sc*i* $ uname -a Linux mypad 3.16.0-31-generic #43~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 10 20:13:38 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/1432194/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
