Screen Glitches with Chrome and Zoom

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Robbo
Posts: 13
Joined: Tue Jan 03, 2023 5:57 pm

Screen Glitches with Chrome and Zoom

#1 Post by Robbo »

Hi, so I've only noticed this happening with Google Chrome and Zoom, but when I run these apps I get screen glitches: horizontal lines or bars that briefly take up part of the screen and then disappear. They happen all over the app window. Otherwise the apps seem to run fine.
I'm running MX 21.3 xfce ahs, all the info is below.

Thanks for your help!

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System:    Kernel: 5.18.0-4mx-amd64 [5.18.16-1~mx21+1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.18.0-4mx-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash pcie_aspm=off 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_ahs_x64 Wildflower September 18  2022 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-dw3xxx v: Type1ProductConfigId 
           serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: HP model: 881D v: 50.27 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.53 date: 10/15/2021 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 37.6 Wh (100.0%) condition: 37.6/41.0 Wh (91.7%) volts: 12.9 
           min: 11.3 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> 
           status: Full 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
           arch: Tiger Lake family: 6 model-id: 8C (140) stepping: 1 microcode: A4 cache: 
           L2: 8 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 38707 
           Speed: 955 MHz min/max: 400/4200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 955 2: 987 3: 638 4: 866 
           5: 783 6: 992 7: 900 8: 943 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected 
           Type: retbleed status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 
           mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a49 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Luxvisions Innotech Limited HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB 
           driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 30c9:0035 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 compositor: compton v: 1 driver: loaded: intel 
           display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
           s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
           Monitor-1: eDP1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 102 size: 340x190mm (13.4x7.5") 
           diag: 389mm (15.3") 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl 
           bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a0c8 class-ID: 0401 
           Device-2: Logitech Logitech USB Headset type: USB 
           driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-1:4 chip-ID: 046d:0a8f 
           class-ID: 0300 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.0-4mx-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl port: 4000 
           bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a0f0 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0 
           chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-10:3 chip-ID: 8087:0026 
           class-ID: e001 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2 
           sub-v: 2014 hci-v: 5.2 rev: 2014 
           Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: slave accept 
           service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio 
RAID:      Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd v: 0.6 
           port: 4000 bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086.9a0b rev: class-ID: 0104 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 140.21 GiB (12.0%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLQ256HBJD-00BH1 
           size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 
           type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: HPS1NFAV temp: 45.9 C scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-60Z10T1 
           size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD 
           rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 1A05 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 61 GiB size: 61 GiB (100.00%) used: 15.37 GiB (25.2%) fs: btrfs 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%) used: 83.4 MiB (32.6%) 
           fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
           ID-3: /home raw-size: 300.01 GiB size: 300.01 GiB (100.00%) used: 9.08 GiB (3.0%) 
           fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16 GiB used: 1.8 MiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 27.8 C mobo: 10.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0 
Repos:     Packages: 2573 note: see --pkg apt: 2562 lib: 1323 flatpak: 11 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.librewolf.net bullseye main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onlyoffice.list 
           1: deb https://download.onlyoffice.com/repo/debian squeeze main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main
Info:      Processes: 341 Uptime: 17h 36m wakeups: 6109 Memory: 7.52 GiB used: 3.47 GiB (46.2%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI
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razor2021
Posts: 499
Joined: Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:49 pm

Re: Screen Glitches with Chrome and Zoom

#2 Post by razor2021 »

Sounds like a Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) graphics card issue.

Your laptop is newer than most. Some stability improvements you can do to check.
  • update your BIOS from v F.53 to F.59 Rev.A 79.8 MB Feb 21, 2023
  • update your linux kernel to 6.1 to align with newer devices via MXPI; search for kernels
Once upgraded, see if the same screen glitches remain. If tearing remains, might need to enable the TearFree option in xorg file. Check here --> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_ ... leshooting
Mixed of desktops and laptops, I have a Gravis Ultrasound Classic card (unfortunately its ISA-slot based) ... - I must be a dino. :popcorn:
Running on my DesktopPC - MX-23.4 AHS with latest Kernel: 6.12.17-1-liquorix-amd64
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Stevo
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Posts: 14854
Joined: Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:07 pm

Re: Screen Glitches with Chrome and Zoom

#3 Post by Stevo »

Possibly also try using MX Tweak to set the graphics driver to intel with tearfree instead of the default kernel driver "modesetting". This gets rid of tearing, but Google Earth didn't work with it last time I checked.

Or you could try turning off compton in MX Tweak to see if that helps.
MXPI = MX Package Installer
QSI = Quick System Info from menu
The MX Test repository is mostly backports; not the same as Debian testing
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