Xorg logs spammed with page flipping error

Briefly describe your issue below:
I noticed in Xorg.0.log an excessive spamming of:

(EE) modeset(0): Failed to get GBM bo for flip to new front.
(EE) modeset(0): present flip failed

When this occurs there are two solutions:

The first is to disable the compositing window manager in MATE Tweak. This stops the problem immediately but messes up the look of windows/animations.

The second and preferred method is to disable page flipping. I was able to accomplish this by creating a file ‘xorg.conf’ in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with the contents:

Section “Device”
Identifier “Intel Graphics”
Driver “modesetting”
Option “PageFlip” “off”
EndSection


After rebooting the logs are no longer spammed. Hope this helps some people.

What version of Parrot are you running? (include version (e.g. 4.6), edition(e.g. Home//KDE/OVA, etc.), and architecture (currently we only support amd64)
uname -a
Linux parrot 5.2.0-2parrot1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.2.9-2parrot1 (2019-08-25) x86_64 GNU/Linux

What method did you use to install Parrot? (Debian Standard / Debian GTK / parrot-experimental)
live encrypted persistent usb debian mate

Configured to multiboot with other systems? (yes / no)
no
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