Graphics problem on Ubuntu 18.04 - blurred text + screen flickering

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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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  • I 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' or sudo lshw -c display. Can you edit your question to add that info?
    – Zanna
    May 16 at 7:07










  • Thanks @Zanna , I have edited the question to include the extra details
    – Elias Gikonyo
    May 16 at 13:36














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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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  • I 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' or sudo lshw -c display. Can you edit your question to add that info?
    – Zanna
    May 16 at 7:07










  • Thanks @Zanna , I have edited the question to include the extra details
    – Elias Gikonyo
    May 16 at 13:36












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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







share|improve this question














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


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  • I 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' or sudo lshw -c display. Can you edit your question to add that info?
    – Zanna
    May 16 at 7:07










  • Thanks @Zanna , I have edited the question to include the extra details
    – Elias Gikonyo
    May 16 at 13:36
















  • I 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' or sudo lshw -c display. Can you edit your question to add that info?
    – Zanna
    May 16 at 7:07










  • Thanks @Zanna , I have edited the question to include the extra details
    – Elias Gikonyo
    May 16 at 13:36















I 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' or sudo lshw -c display. Can you edit your question to add that info?
– Zanna
May 16 at 7:07




I 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' or sudo lshw -c display. Can you edit your question to add that info?
– Zanna
May 16 at 7:07












Thanks @Zanna , I have edited the question to include the extra details
– Elias Gikonyo
May 16 at 13:36




Thanks @Zanna , I have edited the question to include the extra details
– Elias Gikonyo
May 16 at 13:36










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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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    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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      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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        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)






        share|improve this answer












        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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