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Flickering after update to Mint 22

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Description

Distribution

Mint 22

Package version

6.2.9

Graphics hardware in use

Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520]

Frequency

Quite often

Bug description

After upgrading to Mint 22 flickering appears on my Lenovo Thinkpad T470s

leonardinux@T470s:~$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE x11 leonardinux@T470s:~$ sudo lshw -c video *-display descrizione: VGA compatible controller prodotto: Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] fornitore: Intel Corporation id fisico: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 nome logico: /dev/fb0 versione: 07 larghezza: 64 bits orologio: 33MHz capacità: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb configurazione: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 resolution=1920,1080 risorse: irq:137 memoria:eb000000-ebffffff memoria:a0000000-afffffff ioport:e000(dimensione=64) memoria:c0000-dffff leonardinux@T470s:~$

After a brand new install of Mint 22 problem occur again.
After a brand new install of LMDE 6 problem has not occured in last 3 days.

In Mint 23.1 I haven't had the flickerings...

Steps to reproduce

mainly using firefox, thunderbird and ferdium... but I have all three sw open!!!

Expected behavior

dunno

Additional information

My mainly used packages:
thunderbird, firefox, ferdium (flatpak), libreoffice, wine (latest stable from winehq repositories), libhamlib, QLog (flatpak), direwolf, wsjtx, chirp.

Same package installed in Mint 23.1, Mint 22 and LMDE 6.

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Research direction

No source file or test is named. Start by reproducing the flickering on Mint 22 under X11 with the listed Intel i915 hardware and applications, recording the outputs of the provided session-type and video-device commands. Done is not defined because the report does not state an expected behavior or a specific fix to verify.

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Assessment

Tech stack
linux
Domain
desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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