P.Johnston, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.
To clarify, if you use the proprietary nvidia drivers does this provide
a WORKAROUND as outlined in
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia ?
** Tags added: latest-bios-a11
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1583365
Title:
Strange graphic artifacts.
Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
In window menus, scroll bars. Strange and random colors shift and
spread through areas of the screen. Usually the color is blue.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
BootLog:
/dev/sdb1: recovering journal
/dev/sdb1: clean, 287693/3662848 files, 1686817/14648437 blocks
CompizPlugins: No value set for
`/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Wed May 18 17:27:10 2016
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] [10de:1380] (rev a2) (prog-if
00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] [1043:84bb]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-18 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
(20160420.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS 8700
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-22-generic.efi.signed
root=UUID=9b3a2ee0-7743-43b2-b375-527cf9436dab ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 07/09/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 0KWVT8
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A03
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd07/09/2015:svnDellInc.:pnXPS8700:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0KWVT8:rvrA03:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: XPS 8700
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.2.0-1ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.2.0-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel
2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
1:1.0.12-1build2
xserver.bootTime: Wed May 18 17:21:11 2016
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2
xserver.video_driver: modeset
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