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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