[Bug 75214] Re: Screen occasionally offset to the left
For reference: This problem appears to have been caused by a kernel console bug that was fixed in 2.6.22 (see the Linux kernel mailing list thread at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/27/370), so this problem should be gone in Gutsy. Possibly related or duplicate Ubuntu bugs: bug #100105, bug #139546, bug #153425. -- Screen occasionally offset to the left https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75214 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 75214] Re: Screen occasionally offset to the left
This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New = Fix Released -- Screen occasionally offset to the left https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75214 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 75214] Re: Screen occasionally offset to the left
No, this is no longer an issue for me in Feisty. -- Screen occasionally offset to the left https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75214 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 75214] Re: Screen occasionally offset to the left
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you while using Feisty? Thanks in advance. -- Screen occasionally offset to the left https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75214 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 75214] Re: Screen occasionally offset to the left
I still haven't found the script that makes this happen, but a quick workaround is to switch terminals. Press ctrl+alt+f4 (for example) and then switch back to the graphical terminal with ctrl+alt+f7. Let's hope feisty fixes this. -- Screen occasionally offset to the left https://launchpad.net/bugs/75214 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 75214] Re: Screen occasionally offset to the left
This just happened to me again, and as I was halfway through typing something I kept going. About two minutes later, the screen shifted even more. -- Screen occasionally offset to the left https://launchpad.net/bugs/75214 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 75214] Re: Screen occasionally offset to the left
Just for your information, I'm think I'm on my way to find the cause of the problem. I think it is one of the daily cron scripts. What I've done now is that I mode all files from /etc/cron.daily another directory. Since then, the problem has not occured. Now i'm moving one script per day back to /etc/cron.daily. So far I have the following scripts enabled ~ ls /etc/cron.daily/ apt aptitude find.notslocate slocate tetex-bin and the problem still hasn't occured. So my guess is that it has something to do with one of the scripts that I have currently disabled: ~ ls /etc/disabled.cron.daily/ 0anacron bsdmainutils logrotate man-db standard sysklogd I'll post back here when I find the culprit. -- Screen occasionally offset to the left https://launchpad.net/bugs/75214 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 75214] Re: Screen occasionally offset to the left
OK, it doesn't have to do with updatedb either. Today I resumed from a more-than-week-long hibernation; the screen shifted while updatedb was running (as usual); I re-hibernated and resumed; the screen soon shifted again. I also checked for dmesg entries, but there were none at the time the error occured. Can you mark this bug as confirmed? -- Screen occasionally offset to the left https://launchpad.net/bugs/75214 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 75214] Re: Screen occasionally offset to the left
Joachim: if you have an nVidia card, you can search for nvidia-glx in Synaptic, and look at the installed version number there. However, I doubt that this problem has to do with the driver version, after all. Do you also have a Dell laptop? I've also noticed that the problem doesn't seem to be related to hibernation, as I thought first. It's just that I usually hibernate and resume once per day. However, I've noticed that it (at least usually) happens when the daily updatedb is run. -- Screen occasionally offset to the left https://launchpad.net/bugs/75214 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 75214] Re: Screen occasionally offset to the left
The version number is 1.0.8774+2.6.17.5-11 I don't know how to tell when updatedb is run, but I can report that this problem happens several times a day. Yesterday I tried logging out to fix the problem, and each time (twice) it reoccurred a few minutes after logging back in. -- Screen occasionally offset to the left https://launchpad.net/bugs/75214 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 75214] Re: Screen occasionally offset to the left
How do I find out which drivers I am using? Everything you've described matches what happens on my system, by the way. -- Screen occasionally offset to the left https://launchpad.net/bugs/75214 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 75214] Re: Screen occasionally offset to the left
Some more results of my troubleshooting: The problem doesn't have to do with the restricted nVidia drivers. I recently changed from the non-free (nvidia) driver to the free (nv) driver, and the problem still appeared after a while. What about you, Joachim, are you using the nVidia drivers as well? Which version? Also, I've noticed that I don't need to log out and in again to get the screen to look right. If I just hibernate while the screen is offset, it looks right again when I resume. -- Screen occasionally offset to the left https://launchpad.net/bugs/75214 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 75214] Re: Screen occasionally offset to the left
This happens to me as well. It started after I ran several recommended updates this Monday; most notably xorg and xserver-xorg from version 1:7.1.1ubuntu6 to 1:7.1.1ubuntu6.2. It happened during the upgrade in question, and since then, it has happened once shortly after each time I resume from hibernation. Logging out and in again solves the problem temporarily, until the next day when I resume. It seems to happen about 5 minutes after I resume (has happened three times so far). If I leave it running, without re-logging in, the screen shifts further to the left. I'm guessing it's about 50 pixels at a time. The mouse pointer is still using the real screen coordinates, so I have to click 50 or so pixels to the right of where I want. I'm running the nVidia 8776 driver from the official repos, on a GeForce4 4200 Go graphics card in a Dell Latitude D800 with a widescreen 1680x1050 monitor. Taking a screenshot does not show the problem (the screenshots look normal), so I can't show exactly how it looks, unfortunately. -- Screen occasionally offset to the left https://launchpad.net/bugs/75214 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
