Screen blinking when move mouse or typing on my HP 8440p - Fedora 43, kernel 6.17.1-300

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Hi,

I have some issues probably with i915 driver. I tried a lot of parameters, edited my grub file but not working. My screen blinking/flickering (white light) when I move cursor or typing. This happens also on log-in screen when typing. Now I use XFCE environment but on KDE or GNOMe issue persist. Can you help? My CPU i5-M560. This is ironlake cpu, first gen i5. My GPU is Intel Integrated Card. When I did not move cursor screen semms to not flickering at all.

I tried add this parametet to the boot option in grub: i915.enable_psr=0

Did not help. I tried also others options. Issue is still there

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Your title says kernel 6.17.1.
The current updated kernel is 6.17.12 and many other packages have also been updated since fedora 43 was released.

Please try an update in a terminal window using sudo dnf upgrade and let us know how many packages get updated. Also reboot after that upgrade and let us know if the screen issue changes as well.

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Hi,
I did upgrade. Did not help at all. This same.

uname -ar

Linux fedora 6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Dec 13 05:06:24 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Now I will compile 6.18.3 from upstream and we will see.

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Unfortunately, I can’t compile my own kernel due to errors. Probably too low performance (4GB RAM and an old first-generation Intel i5 processor). I did update and now my kernel is: Linux fedora 6.18.3-200.fc43.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jan 2 20:10:56 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Issue is still here :frowning: