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My fonts, windows are often affected by graphic distorisions, bugs, sometimes disapear without any reasons.

When I reboot it is generally solved.

This is happening since I update my kernel and graphics, but I don't know how to solve it.

I have a Dell XPS 13 running ubuntu 14.04, with Intel HD5500.

Output of lspci -k | grep VGA -A2

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0665
Kernel driver in use: i915

Output of dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg-core

rc  xserver-xorg-core                                     2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7                                 amd64        Xorg X server - core server
ii  xserver-xorg-core-lts-utopic                          2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1.2~trusty2                         amd64        Xorg X server - core server

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  • Please edit your question and add there output of "lspci -k | grep VGA -A2" terminal command.
    – Pilot6
    May 20, 2015 at 8:22
  • And also "dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg-core"
    – Pilot6
    May 20, 2015 at 8:27
  • It looks like a bug in the newer intel driver.
    – Pilot6
    May 20, 2015 at 8:34
  • So I can't do anything about it ?
    – Villeneuve Michaël
    May 20, 2015 at 8:35
  • You can revert xorg to the previous version
    – Pilot6
    May 20, 2015 at 8:36

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This looks like a bug in Intel graphics drivers. There is no vivid HWE for trusty yet. So you can do one of these:

  1. Wait till new HWE appears in Ubuntu repositories. It is a matter of a week or two, then upgrade to it. I prefer this.
  2. Install Ubuntu 15.04.
  3. Do 2 + Intel graphics installer. (I do not like this)
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This solution seems to have partially fixed it for me UBUNTU 14.04 Gui text and pictures displaying problem like a virus

But instead of the following : 

Section "Device"
  Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
  Driver      "intel"
  Option      "AccelMethod"  "uxa"
EndSection

I have set the AccelMethod to sna

Indeed, UXA was giving me terrible lag

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  • This is not a real solution, but a workaround. But workable.
    – Pilot6
    May 20, 2015 at 9:06
  • Yes that's what I tought, but still it seems to be working pretty well, less buggy, and graphics are also working faster so I will stick with it until Intel releases a knew driver, as you adviced
    – Villeneuve Michaël
    May 20, 2015 at 9:08
  • For more information on what this actually does, see man 4 intel or wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics#Troubleshooting. I have seen similar problems with 15.04 on a new laptop with Broadwell Intel Integrated graphics, but as far as I can tell sna mode is used by default - verified through grep -i uxa /var/log/Xorg.0.log from the comments here: cynic.cc/blog/posts/sna_acceleration_vs_uxa
    – Yi Jiang
    Sep 8, 2015 at 2:31

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