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I have a Dell Inspiron 7548 with a 4k resolution screen. When I first installed Ubuntu on this machine I had a screen flickering issue, but I solved it passing the option i915.enable_IPS=0 to the kernel upon boot (source: Askubuntu and bugs.freedesktop).

But now, after an official kernel update (3.19.0.30) this tip doesn't work anymore. No problem if I go back to 3.19.0.28.

Any suggestions?

Thank you very much

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Sergio Cortinovis
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I think I've solved the issue by myself, I'm posting what I've done hoping that this will help someone else.

The solution is quite simple: the new kernel works out-of-the-box, this means that the instruction i915.enable_IPS=0 is not needed anymore.

So, to solve the problem, open a terminal and type: gedit /etc/default/grub then search for the "i915.enable_IPS=0" and remove it. Save, close and rebuild grub configuration with: sudo grub-mkconfig

Reboot and voilà!

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