Weird screen flickering with Intel HD Graphics 5500

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Liam Proven schreef op 16-11-2017 13:30:
> On 15 November 2017 at 17:47, Teresa e Junior <teresaejunior at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 (through to F6) to switch to a text-only console.
>>> Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 to switch back.
>> 
>> The TTYs flicker the same way.
> 
> That suggests it is not a graphics driver related problem, but some to
> do with your GPU chip, I'm afraid.
> 
>>> All "nomodeset" to your kernel parameters.
>> 
>> That works, thank you, but 3D rendering now is slower, and the laptop 
>> seems
>> hotter! I think I'll stick with the random flickering + suspend the 
>> laptop +
>> wake again!
> 
> :-o
> 
> It shouldn't change anything once the machine has got to the desktop!
> 
> It sounds to me like you have a sick graphics chip. It's not much to
> go on, and I'm not certain, but that is my guess.

Don´t forget that older versions of Ubuntu didn´t have the problem and 
that that´s something she can probably verify.