# Potential Driver issue, screen freezes and flickers

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/potential-driver-issue-screen-freezes-and-flickers/5147>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [July 24, 2021, 9:58am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/potential-driver-issue-screen-freezes-and-flickers/5147 "2021-07-24T09:58:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/potential-driver-issue-screen-freezes-and-flickers/5147/4 "2021-07-24T12:58:51Z")

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This is a bug with the Intel driver.

Please report the issue to launchpad via

```
ubuntu-bug xorg-server

```

You could try using an older unsupported intel driver … it might though make things worse.

> [@Screen glitching problem with 20.04](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/screen-glitching-problem-with-20-04/3661/7):
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> I have the exact same problem, with the i915 also. If you are interested, the bug report is here: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/1896627](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/1896627) Unfortunately, I don’t know why the issue still persists when you try the intel driver / tearfree option. I was lucky enough that it fixed it for me. Here is the exact contents of /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf on my system: Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "TearFree" "true" …

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