Talk: Flickering display on Thinkpad P14s (and possibly other systems) with 120Hz screen

[kparal (Kamil Páral)]

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Flickering display on Thinkpad P14s (and possibly other systems) with 120Hz screen

Problem Multiple users have reported graphical corruption (a flickering display) with kernel 6.19 and later on Thinkpad P14s laptops with Intel GPUs and the 120Hz screen. This may also affect other recent-generation Intel laptops with 120Hz screens, but we have not yet had any definite indications of this. See a video example of the problem. Cause Intel engineers seemed to have narrowed down the root cause to a potential incompatibility between Panel Self-Refresh (PSR) and Variable Refresh Rat…