I was reading Brandon's (maceach-b) bug report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1657875). Besides the very entertaining flaming of Christopher (penalvch) by Brandon over there, I've found out in that report that this has been fixed in the newer Xorg stack, which can be installed on 16.04 by running the following, as mentioned in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack:
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04 This also fixed the issue for me on Thinkpad W520. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1586539 Title: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/1586539/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
