[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1522922] Re: Screen flickering in Intel i915 driver

2016-10-30 Thread John Smith
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1554613 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1554613 I'm having this same issue on a Dell 7537 running Ubuntu 16.10 (kernel 4.8). The flickering that occurs is a rapid change in the brightness of the screen, in a random, persistently manner (it never stops).

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2016-06-17 Thread John Smith
(Switching back to proprietary nVidia driver) results in (graphic corruption after resume from suspend) However it seems there might be some issue related to how shadows are rendered. Using nouveau, there are no shadows, and windows have borders instead of being borderless with shadows. I'm not f

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2016-06-16 Thread John Smith
It seems the problem might have something to do with how shadows are rendered, AFAIK using nouveau has disabled shadows (possibly due to lower performance of graphics card on nouveau) however the shadows are enabled using the proprietary Nvidia driver 361.42... I'm just guessing the shadows are di

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2016-06-15 Thread John Smith
Hey penalvch, After almost a day of using nouveau, there doesn't seem to be any black border after resume from suspend, however this might be because of low suspend-resume cycle count. I'll post update if the issue occurs on nouveau. -- You received this bug notification because you are a membe

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2016-06-14 Thread John Smith
there seems to be bug: title bar appearing transparent with nouveau as I have posted on bug tracker On Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 10:05 AM Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > John Smith, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. > > To cl

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2016-06-14 Thread John Smith
I sorted out the suspend issue (turns out I had inserted a faulty memory card in the laptop and as it was unable to get data 'sync' to it hence systemd was assuming that suspend transaction would be destructive :D ) I'll try to use nouveau for a few days, see if black border issue persists or come

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2016-06-13 Thread John Smith
Another thing that might help in triage is as per the workaround specified, Changing screen position (in a 2 monitor setup: laptop + HD TV(via HDMI) ) corrects the problem, Important thing to note is that you can use [ nvidia-x-server-settings ] or [ gnome program: Displays] to do it, in either

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2016-06-13 Thread John Smith
1. The black border issue is inconsistent so cannot verify whether using nouveau fixed it or not. 2. My HDD seems to be giving-up as the read-error-rate is at: 6033 ->Which seems to result in btrfs errors/panic in syslog -> -> Also which seems to prevent `suspend` at the moment 3. There

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1576228] [NEW] Black borders around all windows

2016-04-28 Thread John Smith
Public bug reported: There seems to be a bug somewhere in [ kernel OR xorg OR nvidia proprietary driver ] in the display stack. After the laptop ( dell XPS L501X ) resumes from suspend there are wide black borders around all windows with close/minimize/maximize buttons blacked out. [ image att

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 993187] Re: ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently.

2012-08-08 Thread john smith
I had this bug on my HP dm1 4xxx series notebook (AMD e-450 / radeon 6230m / BCM 4313). I had full system lockup with no other option but hard reset. It occurs in other linux distributions also but Ubuntu suffered the most by a long shot. I followed all the threads and tried many of the suggestio