Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1512066] Re: Desktop screen and icon corruption

2015-11-07 Thread Geoff
years ago, and progressed through upgrades as they became available. It is only since moving from 14.10 that these corruptions began. Best Regards. and thank you for the response Geoff On 7 November 2015 at 14:11, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Geoff,

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1512066] [NEW] Desktop screen and icon corruption

2015-11-01 Thread Geoff
Public bug reported: This is now the 3 rd time to reinstall 15.10. Previously the 15.04 version has been re-installed. Under 15.04 the problem (bug) was restricted to the desktop background image in that after a few days and new updates loaded the screen became corrupted with the appearance of

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1371401] Re: randomly freezing

2015-03-31 Thread Geoff Williams
Apologies, I now realise I should have created a new bug report which I have done: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1438708 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/13714

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1371401] Re: randomly freezing

2015-03-31 Thread Geoff Williams
** Attachment added: "photo of crash message" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1371401/+attachment/4361960/+files/20150330_233205_small.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launch

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1371401] Re: randomly freezing

2015-03-31 Thread Geoff Williams
Summary === I think I am affected by this same bug, I have all the above systems and get hard lockups with Linux kernel 3.16 every 5 - 15 minutes. Attempted upgrading to (x)ubuntu 14.10 to see if this improved stability and laptop crashed so badly during the upgrade that it broke grub and had

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1416601] Re: touchpad does not respond to tap-to-clicks in I2C mode in Ubuntu 15.04 on 2015 XPS 13 (9343)

2015-03-06 Thread Geoff Teale
Just wanted to confirm that the trackpad in my XPS13 9343 is working perfectly with the daily mainline kernel today: Linux boris 4.0.0-999-lowlatency #201503060211 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 6 02:15:32 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1416601] Re: touchpad does not respond to tap-to-clicks in I2C mode in Ubuntu 15.04 on 2015 XPS 13 (9343)

2015-02-06 Thread Geoff Teale
I see this also on 3.18.0-12-generic. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1416601 Title: touchpad does not respond to tap-to-clicks in I2C mode in Ubuntu 15.04

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1259369] [NEW] Built-in display brightness drops to 0 after monitor rearrangment

2013-12-09 Thread Geoff Flarity
Public bug reported: I have a Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 13. I use it with an external monitor via HDMI at home and at work. If I re-arrange the monitors in the display settings (which is to the left/right) at home my laptop screen (build-in monitor) goes black. Turns out the backlight brightness gets se

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1218815] Re: [radeon] Graphic glitches and screen corruption (vertical lines) on XMir surfaces only

2013-09-27 Thread Geoff Teale
As of right now this bug is gone for me - successfully running unity on top of unity-system-compositor on my AMD A8 3500m with an embedded Radeon HD 6620G. Very happy man :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1121579] Re: Xorg freeze

2013-06-07 Thread Geoff Clements
In an attempt to try to find a work around I made the following change: Settings > Desktop Effects > Advanced > Composting type > OpenGL > Qt graphics system > Native (it was "Render"). I've now been running for nearly a week without seeing any freezes, it was at least one a day. As this is a KDE

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1121579] Re: Xorg freeze

2013-05-24 Thread Geoff Clements
There's not much description in the bug report but I have marked it as affects me because I am suffering from Xorg freezes since updating to Raring. I'm using Kubuntu and nvidia-313-updates (313.30-0ubuntu1). I have tried nvidia-304-updates and nvidia-310-updates but they both suffer from this prob

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 953919] Re: corrupt boot splash and terminal console with nvidia driver

2013-03-22 Thread Geoff
I have found a workaround that works at least for me. I appended "vga=792 nomodeset" to the kernel arguments, and I provided an /etc/X11/xorg.conf specific to my setup. Incidentally, my graphics card is a GeForce4 and not a GeForce3 as stated earlier. For the instance where I was seeing a blank

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 953919] Re: corrupt boot splash and terminal console with nvidia driver

2013-03-21 Thread Geoff
I have the same problem using the nvidia driver (actually nvidia-96) with a GeForce3 card and a recent installation of Ubuntu 12.04. While booting up, the grub menu works fine, but after that, the screen goes blank with just a cursor. The lightdm login screen comes up with less than full resoluti

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1033695] Re: External HDMI Monitor does not get detected / invalid EDID checksum

2013-03-12 Thread Geoff
Chris, you mention overriding the EDID. I have a similar problem using the i915 driver with a laptop display that fails to report its EDID. I have tried using drm_kms_helper, but I haven't gotten it to work yet. /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-LVDS-1/edid contains correct EDI

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1124660] Re: Precise 20120213 i386 live session fails in virtualbox

2013-03-01 Thread Geoff Martin
I was also getting the low graphics mode problem when using Ubuntu 12.02.2 with Virtualbox. I've tested the updated libpciaccess package with Virtualbox in two ways: 1) I installed the package into a live session running on Virtualbox. 2) I built the package into a custom Live image which I ran on

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1105389] Re: Arrandale GPU hangs occasionally after libdrm2 upgrade to 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.1

2013-01-25 Thread Geoff
I had to hard-reset and boot up again, so I'm not sure that this traceback from syslog was included in the attachments. ** Attachment added: "syslog" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdrm/+bug/1105389/+attachment/3500511/+files/syslog -- You received this bug notification because

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1105389] [NEW] Arrandale GPU hangs occasionally after libdrm2 upgrade to 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.1

2013-01-25 Thread Geoff
Public bug reported: After yesterday's upgrade of libdrm-intel1, libdrm-nouveau1a, libdrm- radeon1 and libdrm2 to 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04, my Arrandale GPU has started to hang occasionally. Since I'm using drm_kms_helper to override EDID on a faulty laptop display, I'm not sure how thi

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

2012-05-30 Thread Geoff Payne
*disabling -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993187 Title: ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubunt

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

2012-05-30 Thread Geoff Payne
Well lads - sometimes the simplest stuff is the way to go. I've been running system load indicator and weather applet on my old 1.6 Gh dual core with 2meg on precise. Endless freezes: disabled nvidia etc etc - but what has worked, so far is them at startup. Suggest it may be worthwhile looking at u

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 993187] Re: ubuntu 12.04 64bit completely freezes frequently

2012-05-16 Thread Geoff Smith
@ Michael (starkpc) My apology Michael, I should have read the posts a little more carefully. Additional to my post #80 I would like to add that I do have access to keyboard so am able to peform REISUB. There looks like there may be the need for several bug reports from the posts here. I do not

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 993187] Re: ubuntu 12.04 64bit completely freezes frequently

2012-05-16 Thread Geoff Smith
I am also experiencing quite a few random freezes at startup and other times. Using Gnome shell with fglrx driver NOT installed. Graphics card AMD Radeon HD 5770. Cursor still functions but that is all. Clean install of 12.04 64 bit. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 899944] Re: package nvidia-173 173.14.22-0ubuntu11 failed to install/upgrade: nvidia-173 kernel module failed to build (FATAL: parse error in symbol dump file)

2012-01-10 Thread Geoff B
I recently discovered a failing RAM stick that was causing random crashes. I don't know if this was faulty at the time of the original crash, but I have reinstalled / as there were a number of dependency problems. Running OK now. Thanks for your time. -- You received this bug notification because

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 838577] Re: GNOME Shell display problems with FGLRX

2012-01-07 Thread Geoff Smith
Mostly usable - #80 and only a glitch - #82 are no good for me. I am waiting for a permanent fix before I install fglrx driver again. I hope ATI solves problem soon. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 899944] Re: package nvidia-173 173.14.22-0ubuntu11 failed to install/upgrade: nvidia-173 kernel module failed to build

2011-12-04 Thread Geoff B
Just noticed that Audacity has disappeared too. Tried to reinstall from Synaptic, but got 'Depends: libsoundtouch0 but it is not going to be installed'. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 in Ubuntu. https:

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 899944] Re: package nvidia-173 173.14.22-0ubuntu11 failed to install/upgrade: nvidia-173 kernel module failed to build

2011-12-04 Thread Geoff B
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/899944 Title: package nvidia-173 173.14.22-0ubuntu11 failed to install/upgrade: nvidia-173 kernel module failed to build T

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 899944] [NEW] package nvidia-173 173.14.22-0ubuntu11 failed to install/upgrade: nvidia-173 kernel module failed to build

2011-12-04 Thread Geoff B
Public bug reported: During the 'cleaning up' phase of a partial upgrade I got a message about closing down applications, which I began to do (FF, TB+Enigmail) when x crashed to a text screen. I had to do a hard reboot - into low graphics mode. Graphics is OK when using previous kernel. ProblemTy

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 774978] Re: xserver crashes in RecordAReply when XRecord is enabled in syndaemon

2011-05-24 Thread Geoff
I have been having these crashes several times each week until now, and I had two crashes already today. The Xorg log trace is identical each time to the one that I posted above. Now I have installed Robert's ppa version of xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, so we'll see if that fixes the problem. If

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 576288] Re: second screen in dualhead setup doesn't refresh properly until reconfigured

2011-05-13 Thread Geoff
Can anyone confirm that this is only an issue with res above 1280x1024 please ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576288 Title: second screen in dualhead setup doe

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 576288] Re: second screen in dualhead setup doesn't refresh properly until reconfigured

2011-05-11 Thread Geoff
I tried Option "EXAPixmaps" "off", but with no change. However, further experimentation has revealed that if you use Monitor Preferences to set both monitors to 1280x1024, the screens both behave perfectly - no trails, no weird colour blocks, everything properly refreshed. Not really an answer as

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 774978] Re: xserver seg'd [945GM]

2011-05-10 Thread Geoff
Several days passed for me with no crash, until another just now. I can't keep running strace for days at a time, due to the huge volume of output, so all I have to share is another traceback. This time the crash occurred upon the completion of a flash video displayed within Opera. I suppose tha

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 576288] Re: second screen in dualhead setup doesn't refresh properly until reconfigured

2011-05-07 Thread Geoff
I am also experiencing this bug in 11.04 on my Dell Inspiron 9300 (ATI Radeon mobility X300, M22) using the open source ATI drivers. The bug only affects the repainting of the background in the main (ie. laptop) display - active windows within the screen redraw themselves fine when overlapped and

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 774978] Re: xserver seg'd [945GM]

2011-05-04 Thread Geoff
I am having the same trouble with an i915. My system is stock everything (upgraded from maverick to natty) except running the PAE kernel and the "ubuntu classic" gdm session. A freeze sometimes occurs within about five minutes of booting up and logging in, but doesn't happen at all if the session

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 713867] Re: Live-CD and Installed Ubuntu freeze on boot with GeForce 210 / Nouveau

2011-03-10 Thread Geoff McClinsey
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/713867 Title: Live-CD and Installed

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 713867] Re: Live-CD and Installed Ubuntu freeze on boot with GeForce 210 / Nouveau

2011-03-10 Thread Geoff McClinsey
I agree this is a show stopper for a lot of people. I have never had any issues with my system using NVIDIA until I switched my setup to how I described above. Before that I was using a VGA to DVI converter but then i noticed the weight of the VGA plug was pulling down on the port and I couldn't al

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 713867] Re: Live-CD and Installed Ubuntu freeze on boot with GeForce 210 / Nouveau

2011-03-09 Thread Geoff McClinsey
Please let me know if you have Dual Display enabled in BIOS so I can confirm that that is the cause of the problem. That is what it took for me to recreate the problem on my nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100/nForce 630i USB (rev a1) setup ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu)

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 713867] Re: Live-CD and Installed Ubuntu freeze on boot with GeForce 210 / Nouveau

2011-03-09 Thread Geoff McClinsey
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/713867 Title: Live-CD and Installed Ubuntu

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 661235] Re: live-cd boot does not work with nvidia ion (ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi) nor with GeForce 210

2011-03-09 Thread Geoff McClinsey
Also i think its trying to display gdm not freezing. You just cant ctrl alt del out of it because it brought down your keyboard. Once gdm loads the keyboard would normally be brought back up. You should notice, or at least it did for me the keyboard lights shutting off right after plymouth finishes

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 713867] Re: Live-CD and Installed Ubuntu freeze on boot with GeForce 210 / Nouveau

2011-03-09 Thread Geoff McClinsey
The cut and paste below was my comment on your other bug. So i just wanted to include it. This bug posting though explains exactly what was happing to me right down to the blinking _ in the upper left and freezing, however for me it also kicks off the display completely and am presented with a no

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 661235] Re: live-cd boot does not work with nvidia ion (ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi) nor with GeForce 210

2011-03-09 Thread Geoff McClinsey
You wouldn't by any chance have a dual display set-up or be using a non VGA connection are you. Even if your are not check your bios and see if dual display is enabled (Advanced Chipset in my bios). I found if it is enabled and set to primary video AUTO or PCI-E and you are using a (in my case) H

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 626974] Re: ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 drivers in Maverick

2011-01-17 Thread Geoff
I installed jocky-gtk, jockey-common, nvidia-96, nvidia-96-modaliases from maverick-proposed on my Dell desktop with a Geforce3 Ti 200. Problem solved. However, there was a side effect: now vino-server aborts with "** ERROR **: Failed to register GObject with DBusConnection". Is there something

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 660405] Re: computer freezes on suspend/hibernate

2010-11-08 Thread geoff
I've switched back to the 2.6.32-25 kernel which seems to have no such suspend/hibernate problems for me (although a friend using an eeepc901 reports similar problems). -- computer freezes on suspend/hibernate https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/660405 You received this bug notification because you a

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 660405] Re: computer freezes on suspend/hibernate

2010-11-07 Thread geoff
This might be worth a read: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16396 ** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #16396 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16396 -- computer freezes on suspend/hibernate https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/660405 You received this bug notification

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 660405] Re: computer freezes on suspend/hibernate

2010-11-01 Thread geoff
Suspend is working for me now. Hibernate is still broken. -- computer freezes on suspend/hibernate https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/660405 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. __

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 660405] Re: computer freezes on suspend/hibernate

2010-10-15 Thread geoff
Same problem on my Intel based HP-dm3 (using a 32 bit desktop dist- upgrade from 10.04). Previously worked perfectly in 10.04. Completely broken now in 10.10. -- computer freezes on suspend/hibernate https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/660405 You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 593178] Re: Lucid - freeze/crash with antspotlight screensaver

2010-09-12 Thread Geoff B
Black screen on selecting Antspotlight or GL Slideshow. I had to reboot and use Gconf-editor to reset (Thanks, Mark). Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic p300. -- Lucid - freeze/crash with antspotlight screensaver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593178 You received this bug notification because you are a mem