Very short black flickering with nvidia 2080Ti after newest stable update

Adding nvidia_drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter seems to have fixed it for me, as someone mentioned in the nVidia forum thread. Haven’t seen the top third of my screen flicker since I rebooted with it set.

Setting kernel parameter how-to

In /etc/default/grub add nvidia_drm.modeset=1 to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line, like so (your line might look different, just add it in the quotes):

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nvidia_drm.modeset=1 udev.log_priority=3"

and run

sudo update-grub

Reboot.

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