Let me break it down for you, the BIOS is NOT out of date in regards to any of the Intel video BIOS portions. Version 2.27 has the same Intel video BIOS extension that 2.29 contains. It is foolish to update BIOS's just because you can, generally you do them because something is broken, but in this case, the broken portion is NOT because of the BIOS at all. If the devs over there at Canonical had a brain on their head, you could have easily determined this by grabbing any of your same CPU/GPU type laptops and ran 16.04 with Chrome. In fact, many people have already explained this countless times only to have had their time wasted.
Fact is, Xorg people already now know about the bug, and know it is a fault with Xorg, but sadly, they have not fully found the issue as to why. So this bug report is a bust. My time was in fact wasted, and yes I will call out and accuse those who make people go through hoops that will not resolve it. You are the dev, correct? So once again, the portion of the BIOS that needs to be update, IS already up to date, none of the other fixes are related to this, and being Xorg already knows that a BIOS update won't resolve it, I refuse to update my BIOS for no reason other than your explained reason which IS the invalid step to pursue. This bug IS a personal matter because the flickering almost gave my epileptic friend a seizure, and you bet I won't have my time wasted. It took almost 10 days to get a response from you, it's taken MANY others months to get any response. This issue was not a problem before 16.04, and so far since being on 16.10, it's gone away again. It IS a 16.04 problem, and for an LTS release, you WILL fix the problem, either be it by backporting the Xorg drivers, or anything you need to do. I am done with this bug report, go fix it yourself. I already fixed it because my workaround IS valid. And for my one last remaining same laptop on 16.04, it has permanently fixed the issue, and works faster with higher framerates in GL games. PS: I am a long time Linux user, for 17 years in fact. This isn't my first go at getting things fixed, but I'll be damned if I sit here and have a dev who IS wasting my time, and not familiar with the Xorg bug reports on this same matter. Goodbye, I'm done here. I'll setup my own PPA to fix this issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1657875 Title: Google Chrome flickers badly on web pages Status in xorg package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Google chrome intermittently flickers (sometimes even Firefox I found, but very very rarely), and can cause a seizure in some people as it can flash between black and white 60 times a second. WORKAROUND: sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "sna" Option "TearFree" "true" Option "DRI" "3" EndSection ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-59.80-generic 4.4.35 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-59-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity_support_test.0: ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: compiz CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0' CompositorUnredirectFSW: true CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Jan 19 14:42:57 2017 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: xenial DistroVariant: ubuntu ExtraDebuggingInterest: I just need to know a workaround GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0416] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [17aa:221e] NVIDIA Corporation GK107GLM [Quadro K1100M] [10de:0ff6] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo GK107GLM [Quadro K1100M] [17aa:221e] InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-10 (101 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719) MachineType: LENOVO 20EFCTO1WW ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-59-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=df32e7f0-11aa-4e43-98d8-fcd5bbeb2c05 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 03/16/2016 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: GNET79WW (2.27 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 20EFCTO1WW dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: SDK0E50510 WIN dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrGNET79WW(2.27):bd03/16/2016:svnLENOVO:pn20EFCTO1WW:pvrThinkPadW541:rvnLENOVO:rn20EFCTO1WW:rvrSDK0E50510WIN:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 20EFCTO1WW dmi.product.version: ThinkPad W541 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160823-0ubuntu1 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.16.04.2 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.2.0-1ubuntu2.2 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.2.0-1ubuntu2.2 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.2 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1.2 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2 xserver.bootTime: Thu Jan 19 10:52:11 2017 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.outputs: product id 5571 vendor CMN xserver.version: 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1657875/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
