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studentik

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Registered: 2013-05-24

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[SOLVED] ASUS K501LX i915 display flicker in console and X session

Hello everyone! Recently took ASUS K501LX laptop and want to run Archlinux on it. However, display flicker exists in console and in X session. Problem is reproducible with default Archlinux ISO (2015-10) and with installed latest xf86-video-intel-git from AUR and nvidia+bumblebee.

I tried playing with various i915 options but problem remains. Currenlty only way to disable flickering is to add i915.modeset=0 option. No error messages are seen in dmesg

Kindly ask your advice on what I should try to narrow down the problem and where to submit bug report on that (here? ASUS? Intel?). Thank you!

Some device info:

# lspci | grep "VGA\3D"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09)
04:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 950M] (rev a2)
# uname -a
Linux chroman 4.2.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 23 07:32:38 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Last edited by studentik (2016-05-17 05:06:49)

studentik

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Registered: 2013-05-24

Posts: 38

Re: [SOLVED] ASUS K501LX i915 display flicker in console and X session

Now that is funny, there is no flicker on attached HDMI display. And everything works fine with laptop display is turned off (including OpenGL games like ARK: Survival executed with primusrun and nvidia driver). So the problem exists specifically on laptop display.

studentik

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Registered: 2013-05-24

Posts: 38

Re: [SOLVED] ASUS K501LX i915 display flicker in console and X session

Kernel 4.5.1-1 has this problem, kernel 4.5.4-1 has not.

Someone must have heard my prayers