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[Bug 1405277] Re: screen flicker in ubuntu 14.04.1 and derivatives

 

I have the exact same problem as hansie describes.  I am trying to put Trusty (14.04 LTS, 32 bit version) on a Toshiba Satellite A215-S4697 with an AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core processor, 1024 DDR2 SDRAM--same laptop as hansie.  There is no flickering/blinking on the original download of Trusty with Linux 3.13.0-32.  The flickering/blinking started, when I did my first update to Linux 3.13.0-48.  I did a further update to Linux 3.13.0-49 and the problem continued.  
So at least 2 people have this problem and I am pretty sure that any other Toshiba Satellite A215-S4697 user has the same problem.  I see the problem is labelled as low priority.  To me it is not low priority, because I would like to have a long term support (LTS) os on my computer.  However, if the problem is fixed in 15.04 (as hansie states), I guess I could go with that until the next LTS.  

Has anybody tried the 64 bit version of 14.04???  Are people moving on
to 15.04, so this problem is likely never to be fixed in 14.04 LTS???

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Title:
  screen flicker in ubuntu 14.04.1 and derivatives

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  1. my screen flickers on all ubuntu 14.04.1 distro versions, linux
  mint 17.1 'cinamon', lxle 64 bit, guadalinex v9 32 bit, etc.

  2. it flickers on the mint 17.1 'cinamon' installation disk - but it
  is stable on mint 17.0 'mate' installed

  3. i can cure it by accesing the 'recovery section' of the 'multi-
  boot' system: but it is NOT 'persistent'

  4. how can i fix this, using the 'cli': to make the fix 'permanent'

  the laptop is an older 'toshiba - amd - athlon x2'

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