xserver-xorg-video-intel causes screen flickering in plasma on XPS 15 7590
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xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I have been experiencing screen flickering related to the compositor in KDE / Plasma on Ubuntu 19.10 on my Dell XPS 15 7590 laptop.
I found the same problem + a solution here: https:/
It turns out that even though I do have Intel chip (IGP on Core i7-9775H) using the Intel driver i915, the package xserver-
Removing this package as suggested on reddit fixes the flickering issue for me and so far I didn't seen any negative side effects - all 3D rendering still works.
Either xorg-video-intel package should be solved to not cause flickering (and have effects where it is not needed) or it shouldn't be installed by default.
It doesn't matter if it's installed by default, you need to specifically configure X to use it. The default is modesetting_drv.so.