Shimmery Intel graphics makes for peak AI-style browsing

Desktop Environments XFCE
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I don’t know why, but very recently I’ve received some graphical issues after I updated. Something within the last eight days made my graphics suck, so I’d like some help figuring it out since even after I re-installed the system it’s still exhibiting problems, most-significant of which being a striped background in LightDM, and less-notable being striped notification icons, with an undercurrent of AI-style glitchiness which pervades every frame of my buffer.

uname -r

6.18.33-1-lts

inxi -G


  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
    driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: Sunplus Innovation Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD driver: uvcvideo
    type: USB
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.22 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    dri: crocus gpu: i915 resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: crocus,swrast
    platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: intel mesa v: 26.1.1-arch1.2
    renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2)
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo de: xfce4-display-settings
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

Again, any help would be appreciated.

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I would like to further mention; I did install basically the same exact setup on a prtable media to try out, and the same problems occurred. So it’s nothing in my $HOME location being the problem.

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Where does this thread go now? I’m evaluating other desktops, and it seems like abroader GTK issue since I noticed the same issues with MATE, from fresh.

I’m installing the LXQt desktop right now to see if it’s an ongoing GTK issue, since I presume I’ll still be using that for my browser and chat client.

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Is it an X problem? Because LXQt is demonstrating issues. Yet I’ve not seen these issues with Plasma… yet, because presumably I’m not using the absolute latest binaries for the live session. That’s what I gotta try next, since it’ll answer whether it’s an X problem.

I should move onto Wayland. And I might just have to, now, even though I wanted a lighter desktop for my older machine. It’s either that, or I delay the inevitible through use of something else with the Xfce desktop, which is something I may do in the end anyway.

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I saw some chatter about old Intel iGPUs recently, from what I remember people said it starts with mesa 26.1.

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So temporray resolution is to downgrade until bisect and triage for regression fix is committed?

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Also, care to link that thread?

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I saw it two or three places, but didn’t pay attention, because it doesn’t affect me. Here’s a thread:

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Thanks for this, it helped me to solve the problem. So I added Chaotic AUR per instructions from https://chaotic.cx and installed in-place of all the mesa things these:

sudo pacman -S mesa-tkg-git lib32-mesa-tkg-git

Puts me to a dev release of 26.2, but it works, and should keep working. I might try the default 26.2 when it comes out but so long Chaotic doesn’t interfere with things, I’m happy to simply keep using that.