[Bug 1314367] Re: 10de:0cbc [HP EliteBook 8540w] Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04

2015-04-01 Thread Tom Winterhalder
Yesterday I uninstalled the nvidia driver and tried to get the nouveau to work. As the nouveau does not recognize the proper resolution I have to use xrandr to create and add a new one. As a lack of time I have not completely solved this issue yesterday. At least with the default (and maximal

[Bug 1314367] Re: 10de:0cbc [HP EliteBook 8540w] Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04

2015-04-01 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Tom Winterhalder, wow that got ugly quickly. Despite this, would nouveau avoid you this issue in your present release? ** Also affects: nvidia-drivers-ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1314367] Re: 10de:0cbc [HP EliteBook 8540w] Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04

2015-04-01 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Tom Winterhalder, just to clarify, are you testing nouveau with the latest release of Ubuntu via http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily- live/current/ ? If not, could you please do this and advise to how it works by default (i.e. no configuration modifications)? -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1314367] Re: 10de:0cbc [HP EliteBook 8540w] Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04

2015-04-01 Thread Tom Winterhalder
On the 02.03 I installed the 15.04 development version from scatch. With nouveau I never had a resolution available wich was more than 1024x768 unless using xrandr after installation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1314367] Re: 10de:0cbc [HP EliteBook 8540w] Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04

2015-04-01 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Tom Winterhalder, regarding nouveau, given it still fully supports your chipset, you may want to file a new reported scoped to nouveau about the resolution issue via a terminal: ubuntu-bug xorg Please ensure you have xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching

[Bug 1314367] Re: 10de:0cbc [HP EliteBook 8540w] Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04

2015-03-31 Thread Tom Winterhalder
Yes that is exactly what they said. Mail from support: The bug looks bad and we would love to fix it.  But I discussed this with our product manager, and was informed that there are no updates planned to the 340 driver branch and that this older tesla generation graphics card will only be

[Bug 1314367] Re: 10de:0cbc [HP EliteBook 8540w] Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04

2015-03-31 Thread Tom Winterhalder
I opened a bug at Nvidia. Short answer: no fix :-( So I am left alone with an almost useless notebook -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Title: 10de:0cbc [HP EliteBook 8540w]

[Bug 1314367] Re: 10de:0cbc [HP EliteBook 8540w] Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04

2015-03-31 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Tom Winterhalder, could you please clarify what you mean by no fix? Did nvidia say they refuse to fix it? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Title: 10de:0cbc [HP EliteBook

[Bug 1314367] Re: 10de:0cbc [HP EliteBook 8540w] Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04

2015-03-08 Thread Mike Loebl
Not that's it's a realistic resolution, but noticed this week when upgrading from a 570 GTX to 970 GTX card, the flickering so far seem s to have gone away. As a work around for the flickering within the NVidia server settings I'd set the Preferred Mode to Maximum performance. However I haven't