Friday, January 15, 2016

google chrome - Weird glitch screen XPS 13



On my brand new Dell XPS 13 9360 Developer edition, there is a glitch on my screen. I might be chrome specific, but I'm unsure.




There are only a couple of lines of and moving the mouse through them typically clears the glitch.



I've already disable hardware acceleration for Chrome (which was causing flickering), but this issue remains.



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With the shipped Ubuntu the HWE packs for the Kernel and X aren't installed. When doing a clean install of Ubuntu 16.04.02, the are automatically installed.



Installing the HWE packs, will install a newer version of the Linux kernel (4.8.0). This new kernel solved these glitches.




sudo apt-get install --install-recommends xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04


See https://askubuntu.com/questions/882896/old-kernel-with-ubuntu-16-04-2-update


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