Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau, GeForce 7300 LE] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-04-29 Thread Paul Collinsworth
No problems to date. It's been installed for a couple of months. On 4/29/20 9:08 AM, Tim Hockin wrote: > How is the Radeon 5450 - any problems with it? I may have to go the > same route. > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:20 PM Paul Collinsworth > wrote: >> I replaced t

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau, GeForce 7300 LE] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-04-28 Thread Paul Collinsworth
I replaced the Nvidia video card in my system and the problem seems to have gone with it. I had seen an improvement with the Nvidia card after switching from the digital video output to the on-card VGA output, but over a period of a couple of weeks or so, the video degraded again. The new card

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-02-19 Thread Paul Collinsworth
The problem started at opening. Log-in to Ubuntu and there it is. Return from terminal or application, where the screen is normal, and there it is, or rather, there it was. The "red scan type artifact", which covered the entire screen, has changed. The video problem now presents differently. I

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau, GeForce 7300 LE] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-02-03 Thread Paul Collinsworth
Thanks. I'm still working on my (sda) install of 18.04.3; haven't completely restored what I had on (sdb). Fewer issues with either the operating system or applications failing to respond, and very few events where I/O handlers have seemingly disappeared. Still have minor issues with screen pre

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau, GeForce 7300 LE] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-27 Thread Paul Collinsworth
Could be. Bug 1860178's write-up seems similar to 1860483. I have been able to use "Settings" in the sda1 install, and switched the background to "black", at which point the raster type corruption in the desktop went away. Now there's occasionally an odd speckled background in the top tool bar,

[Ubuntu-x-swat] Revoked ... Re: Oop! Re: [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau, GeForce 7300 LE] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-26 Thread Paul Collinsworth
as being loaded with the system installs yesterday. The sdb1 linux image set is still 5.5... The artifact as displayed when sda1 is up seems to be slightly different from that of sdb1, but that may just be perceptual, due to the way the two desktops are populated. On 1/25/20 1:46 PM

[Ubuntu-x-swat] Oop! Re: [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau, GeForce 7300 LE] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-25 Thread Paul Collinsworth
hat still has the display problem. A mixup happened at the mid-install restart; the bios was still queued up for boot on sdb2. On 1/25/20 12:37 AM, Paul Collinsworth wrote: > Another result. When I tried the v18.04.3 system preview from the USB > FD, the background was "normal". I ju

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau, GeForce 7300 LE] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-24 Thread Paul Collinsworth
Another result. When I tried the v18.04.3 system preview from the USB FD, the background was "normal". I just finished installing the system, and the background now has the transparent red raster overlay. I could get to "Settings" though without locking up the system, so there was at least a ma

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau, GeForce 7300 LE] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-24 Thread Paul Collinsworth
There seems to be some sort of problem with nouveau, too. Or it may just be a hardware issue. On 1/24/20 2:54 AM, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > don't try to install 304, it doesn't support the xserver in 18.04 which > was one of the reasons it got dropped > -- You received this bug notification becau

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau, GeForce 7300 LE] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-24 Thread Paul Collinsworth
Perhaps I should just get a new GPU card. Or a new system. In the meantime, at boot this morning, the first thing I tried to do after log-in was to access "Settings"; no response. After a few minutes of 'nothing happening', I clicked the e-mail ("Thunderbird") icon; no response there, as well.

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-23 Thread Paul Collinsworth
Yes. Re-installed. uname reports 5.5.0. and the screen is back to the red raster diagonal mess. On 1/23/20 11:58 PM, Daniel van Vugt wrote: > Please run: > >uname -a > > to confirm the newer kernel version is active. > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of U

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-23 Thread Paul Collinsworth
Doesn't look like it - uname returned 4.16.0-74-generic #84-Ubuntu SMP. May have overlaid the new generic by running APT upgrade. I'll try re-installing. On 1/23/20 11:39 PM, Daniel van Vugt wrote: > Please run: > >uname -a > > to confirm the newer kernel version is active. > -- You recei

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-23 Thread Paul Collinsworth
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Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-23 Thread Paul Collinsworth
OTOH, I tried APT update and upgrade after the installation didn't change things and I did get a screen change. Attached is a post-restart screenshot. On 1/23/20 11:29 PM, Paul Collinsworth wrote: > Installed and that wasn't the root cause. Still the same problem. > >

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-23 Thread Paul Collinsworth
Installed and that wasn't the root cause. Still the same problem. On 1/23/20 8:03 PM, Daniel van Vugt wrote: > It's not important whether dkms is in use or not. You can just assume > the worst case and install the four packages in comment #17. > -- You received this bug notification because you

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-23 Thread Paul Collinsworth
I thought that might be the case, and looked in a couple of the /var subdirectories and didn't see dkms. I may run a more exhaustive search before trying the new linux install. I'll be doing that within an hour or so; had to be out most of the day on other business. At the moment the system wit

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-23 Thread Paul Collinsworth
If dkms is installed, where is it in the filesystem? I checked /var and it isn't there - and I run a (more-or-less) standard system, with regard to file organization; don't know that I have any modules that require dkms. On 1/23/20 12:34 AM, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > and can skip the headers too, i

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-23 Thread Paul Collinsworth
Thanks. I'll try the install shortly. On 1/23/20 12:23 AM, Daniel van Vugt wrote: > I know, this is a common question and we should do better to make it > clear. You only need the non-lowlatency packages: > > https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.5-rc7/linux- > headers-5.5.0-050500rc7

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-22 Thread Paul Collinsworth
Should I try all the amd64 packages, i.e. headers, images, and modules in both generic and low latency flavors, or is there a specific package? I've pulled down the entire amd64 set, and the headers-all as well. On 1/22/20 6:55 PM, Daniel van Vugt wrote: > Thanks. This is starting to sound like

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-22 Thread Paul Collinsworth
o slider icon at the top right and the cursor arrow, and the cursor was frozen; once again, no handlers. On 1/22/20 8:40 AM, Paul Collinsworth wrote: > I encountered an issue after advising you that 18.04.3 works. Perhaps > it sheds some light on the problem. > > It occurred to me t

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-22 Thread Paul Collinsworth
I encountered an issue after advising you that 18.04.3 works. Perhaps it sheds some light on the problem. It occurred to me that perhaps there is a graphics issue and that part of what I was seeing is contamination of the background image I was using. So I tried to open "Settings" in order to r

[Ubuntu-x-swat] that worked Re: [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-21 Thread Paul Collinsworth
Loaded a USB with 18.04.3 and the problem wasn't there. The screen, apart from the tool bars, was the default Ubuntu screen with nothing unusual about it. On 1/21/20 11:00 PM, Paul Collinsworth wrote: > OK. I'm back and loading a USB with bootable images. Back later. > > &

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-21 Thread Paul Collinsworth
OK. I'm back and loading a USB with bootable images. Back later. On 1/21/20 8:28 PM, Daniel van Vugt wrote: > Please also try booting Ubuntu 18.04.3 from USB. It's slightly different > to what you have and might have fixed this issue already... > http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/ > -- You recei

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-21 Thread Paul Collinsworth
I'll try that shortly or in a little while. May be a couple of hours. On 1/21/20 8:06 PM, Daniel van Vugt wrote: > OK then. We'll treat this as a pure nouveau driver bug, because that's > the most plausible and common explanation for issues like this. > > Please try booting Ubuntu 20.04 from USB

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1860483] [NEW] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red

2020-01-21 Thread Paul Collinsworth
Public bug reported: My desktop has both it's usual items in place; toolbar on left and desktop icons distributed around the screen. Then there's what appears to be a bunch of scan line, raster line artifacts, in red, laid over my normal background, which is a star field photo on what is ordinaril