[Bug 1264270] Re: Regular black screens since automatic kernel upgrade

2014-01-12 Thread Aurosutru
Chris, the original issue of black screens has not occured in Trusty, which has other issues, such as the false gpu hang mentioned earlier and just now a freeze during startup. Should I file other such bug reports as they occur, or will that be confusing? -- You received this bug notification b

[Bug 1264270] Re: Regular black screens since automatic kernel upgrade

2014-01-11 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Aurosutru, thank you for testing Trusty. Just to confirm, despite the minor false gpu hang, is the originally reported issue still reproducible? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1264270 T

[Bug 1264270] Re: Regular black screens since automatic kernel upgrade

2014-01-11 Thread Aurosutru
After installing updated Intel graphics drivers the display problems with kernels 3.8.0-35 and 3.8.0-34 in 13.04 are gone. Perhaps the kernel developers used newer drivers than those in 13.04 for creating new kernels, but those drivers are not part of the auto-update that includes the kernels. K

[Bug 1264270] Re: Regular black screens since automatic kernel upgrade

2014-01-09 Thread Aurosutru
Chris, Kernel 3.9.0-030900rc8 has more video stability on my system than 3.8.0-35 or 3.8.0-34 but is not perfect. Occasionally the laptop screen will go blank, though the monitor remains normal. I've asked a friend in a nearby city to download the Trusty daily. In the meantime I'm using 3.8.0-

[Bug 1264270] Re: Regular black screens since automatic kernel upgrade

2014-01-06 Thread Aurosutru
Chris, After installing the latest available mainline kernel build version for Raring - 3.9.0-030900rc8 - the video problem again is gone. On UbuntuForums this kernel had good reviews, especially regarding the way it fixes Intel video problems on laptops, so it seems to have done the trick. I'll

[Bug 1264270] Re: Regular black screens since automatic kernel upgrade

2014-01-05 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Aurosutru, thank you for your comments. Regarding them: >"Chris, downloading an .iso with the slow EDGE Inet connection available here >in rural India is not feasible." Well, it would be feasible, it would just take a while. However, if you download Xubuntu, it would be a bit smaller, than Ubunt

[Bug 1264270] Re: Regular black screens since automatic kernel upgrade

2014-01-05 Thread Aurosutru
Chris, downloading an .iso with the slow EDGE Inet connection available here in rural India is not feasible. Would running apport with the current Ubuntu version and the new BIOS be helpful? I can probably update the kernel to the latest upstream kernel if that would be useful too, though the 3.8

[Bug 1264270] Re: Regular black screens since automatic kernel upgrade

2014-01-05 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Aurosutru, thank you for updating your BIOS. Could you please confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . If the issue remains, could you please run the following command in the development re

[Bug 1264270] Re: Regular black screens since automatic kernel upgrade

2014-01-05 Thread Aurosutru
Chris, I did update the BIOS to 407 last month after reading the instructions in the Ubuntu documentation that BIOS upgrades are necessary even if a system is stable in Windows, which this system is. The ASUS BIOS update software in Windows was used. I had high hopes the BIOS upgrade might cure t

[Bug 1264270] Re: Regular black screens since automatic kernel upgrade

2014-01-04 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Aurosutru, as per your https://launchpadlibrarian.net/160698074/BootDmesg.txt : [0.252043] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored ... [1.352253] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci [1.359933] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" optio

[Bug 1264270] Re: Regular black screens since automatic kernel upgrade

2014-01-04 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Tags added: bios-outdated-407 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1264270 Title: Regular black screens since automatic kernel upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: http

[Bug 1264270] Re: Regular black screens since automatic kernel upgrade

2014-01-04 Thread Aurosutru
Upgrading through an automatic kernel upgrade to 3.8.0-35 has not solved this video instability. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1264270 Title: Regular black screens since automatic ke