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Status: Archived
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Closed: Sep 2016
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Display flickers/blinks in Asus Zenbook UX303UA

Reported by sami.lo...@gmail.com, Aug 25 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/51.0.2704.79 Chrome/51.0.2704.79 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open Google Plus in Communities
2. Display flickers and/or blinks when the display updates
3. Much more severe in Google Chrome 52.x than Chromium 51.x

What is the expected behavior?
No blinking and/or flickering of the display

What went wrong?
Display blinks and/or flickers

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 51.0.2704.79  Channel: stable
OS Version: 16.04 64 bit Ubuntu, Linux kernel 4.4 - 4.7
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0

Chromium: 51.x       
Google Chrome: 52.x   
Related: http://askubuntu.com/q/816631/25388
 
Origin of the bug: xserver-xorg-video-intel    
Adjustment in `/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf/20-intel.conf` when the bug does not occur in the internet browsers: 

    # Joakim
    Section "Device"
       Identifier "Intel Graphics"
       Driver "intel"
       Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
       Option "TearFree" "true"
       Option "DRI" "3"
       Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight"
    EndSection   

The resolution is somehow related to `intel_backlight` but we do not know how. 

Another option is to purge the package but then you cannot make the other fixes (etc of F5/F6 keys) with the file 20-intel.conf. 
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Unable to reproduce the issue on Linux 14.04 chrome version 52.0.2743.116 - No flickering observed on Google Plus updates

Could you please upgrade to latest stable and see if the issue still exists.
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Comment 3 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Sep 25 2016

Status: Archived (was: Unconfirmed)
No feedback was received in the last 30 days from reporter "sami.losoi@gmail.com", so archiving this. Please re-open or file a new bug if this is still an issue.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
There are fixes released for the issue in several packages, but mostly concerning Linux kernel in the following ticket. Please, see Timo Aaltone's post there. Affected packages OEM Priority Project, XOrg XServer and Linux kernel. The recent package fixes solve the issue also in Debian. The condition occurred with the old Linux kernel (LK < 4.10) regardless of the OS version. 
 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1586539


Status: fix released, fix released, fix released

Packages: OEM Priority Project, XOrg XServer, Linux kernel    

Importance: critical, medium and medium     

OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Debian 8.x

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