Graphics problem on Ubuntu 18.04 - blurred text + screen flickering
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To get rid of the flicker, I had to REMOVE these two lines from /etc/environment
(you probably don't have them, unless you installed gnome-wobbly-windows
extension)
CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling
CLUTTER_VBLANK=True
And I also had to run sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
and then reboot
For nVidia cards:
To make the text non-blurry, I just increased the screen resolution via nvidia-settings
(the Display dialog did not let me change the resolution)
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Elias Gikonyo
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Elias Gikonyo over 1 year
I installed Ubuntu 18.04 a day ago. It works perfectly but graphics is a problem; I see screen flickering where there are system or JS overlays and blurred text.
What can I do - my graphics are based on intel chip
Running sudo lshw -c display
I get
*-display description: VGA compatible controller product: HD Graphics 520 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 07 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:127 memory:b0000000-b0ffffff memory:a0000000-afffffff ioport:3000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
Check the terminal output screenshot
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Zanna about 6 yearsI think you'll need to give some more detailed hardware information here. Graphics devices should come up when you run
lspci -knn | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D'
orsudo lshw -c display
. Can you edit your question to add that info? -
Elias Gikonyo about 6 yearsThanks @Zanna , I have edited the question to include the extra details
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pauljohn32 over 5 yearsThanks @Jonathan. This worked on my Dell Precision 5510. Symptoms only appeared in Gnome desktop, not XFCE. I had tough time until I found this info.