I’m running Ubuntu 14 on a Librem 13. Everything works fairly well…except video. It’s terrible. Gnome Shell crashes constantly, and oftentimes when I switch applications, it’ll jitter back and forth, almost like it’s stuck between applications. The problems usually seem to happen after I disconnect my external monitor and then suspend and resume.
Upon resume, the login prompt won’t let me login. I found a hacky work around by clicking the “Switch user” and then just login as myself to get back to my desktop. Sometimes, even this doesn’t work, and I have to switch to a terminal screen and forcibly kill gnome-shell, which terminates all my desktop programs.
Is just a problem with Linux’s poor support of the Intel graphics chip? Is there anything I can do to fix this? It’s really frustrating. I paid $500 more than I did for an old Macbook, which also had a lot of video problems, but nothing this bad. I would have expected a “Linux laptop” to handle video better.