Thanks for this advice. A little early to tell as I never could generate the error. But I did have a common symptom that being a drop down list in a browser would yield a black square instead of the list then my window manger would not react to mouse clicks or keyboard input.
I did the BIOS update you recommended. I just had a black square on a drop down but my window manager is still working properly. By the way for us novices the documentation regarding BIOS updates is a lot of words that do not lend much clarity to what you are suppose to do. I suppose somewhere in the Asus manual it says something like the recipe below but I never found it. You might add a recipe like this: 0. Read documentation then - 1. Down load the latest BIOS version. 2. Unzip the download. 3. Copy the BIOS file to a usb Flashdrive. 4. Shutdown your computer. 5. Power up your computer. 6. Press F2 when the Asus logo appears. 7. Select Advanced in the Asus BIOS screen. 8. Select EasyFlash 9. Select your USB Flashdrive 10. Press the Yes buttons to update BIOS On 10/02/2015 10:52 PM, Christopher M. Penalver wrote: > Karl Johnson, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu > better. As per http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z97AR/HelpDesk_Download/ > an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available > (2501). If you update to this following > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything? > > If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the > output of the following terminal command: > sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date > > For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette > . > > Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so > posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't > have to create a new bug report. > > Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible, and the > information above is provided, then please mark this report Status New. > Otherwise, please mark this as Invalid. > > Thank you for your understanding. > > ** Tags added: bios-outdated-2501 > > ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) > Importance: Undecided => Low > > ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1500411 Title: Xorg freeze Status in xorg package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: running browser against local server and data base. That is running browser, apache and sql on the same machine. Did do an update a few days back and another after the freeze just in case already found and fixed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-63.103-generic 3.13.11-ckt25 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-63-generic i686 .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.15 Architecture: i386 CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell] CompositorRunning: compiz CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0' CompositorUnredirectFSW: true CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Sep 28 05:00:33 2015 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: trusty DistroVariant: ubuntu ExtraDebuggingInterest: No GpuHangFrequency: Several times a day GpuHangReproducibility: Seems to happen randomly GpuHangStarted: Within the last few days GraphicsCard: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [GeForce GT 610] [10de:104a] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8411] InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-03 (389 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140417) MachineType: ASUS All Series ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-63-generic root=UUID=614540d3-24cf-4ba7-9ff5-20b5269b8842 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display Title: Xorg freeze UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 04/23/2014 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 0702 dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.board.name: Z97-AR dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0702:bd04/23/2014:svnASUS:pnAllSeries:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnZ97-AR:rvrRev1.xx:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.name: All Series dmi.product.version: System Version dmi.sys.vendor: ASUS version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11.3+14.04.20150313-0ubuntu1 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.60-2~ubuntu14.04.1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.4 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.4 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1.6 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2 xserver.bootTime: Mon Sep 28 04:55:06 2015 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7 xserver.video_driver: nouveau To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1500411/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp