On Wednesday 23 June 2010 10:45:41 you wrote: > Hi Simon, so everything is working properly now? Great. :) Maybe it was > an issue with those old NVIDIA files in the first place. > > If the issue is resolved for you, please mark this bug as Invalid (since > it was probably a configuration problem). Thanks!
David, Yes, the original symptoms have disappeared, but new ones have appeared in their place. Presumably all due to the 'configuration' or 'bug'. What would be causing the screen to display a mosaic on loading? I have also noted that the screen takes ~1-2 seconds longer to repaint in certain instances. For example, when the panels appear at startup - this takes 2 or so seconds where previously it was 1/2 a second. Although the screen appears to be working "the desktop" does not appear quite right. After implementing your fix I have had the computer crash due what appeared to be screen related problems. What happened was ... - I went to log off and the desktop noted that an unknown program was still open. - I waited but it did not finish. - I looked in the system monitor and could not see it. - Eventually I tried again and told the logout routine to force a shutdown. - What happened then was the screen became totally jumbled (looking suspiciously like the screen when starting up - i.e. confused) - I forced a hardware reboot and the problem has not reoccurred; yet In another instance (again showing how things are not quite right) ... - I logged off as a user and the dialog box listing the available users on the desktop behaved in an unusual manner. - instead of appearing in the centre of the screen as usual the dialog box repainted so the height occupied the entire screen, then stepped down until eventually reaching 'normal size'. The process took 1-2 seconds, which seemed like an eternity. I was able to log back on. - its like ubuntu is getting confused, or the driver is not really working properly. The fact that things eventually settle down - DURING A PARTICULAR SESSION - suggests that either the 'bug' is only triggered at certain times or ubuntu is falling back to generic drivers as the appropriate one does not work correctly. So David, in your mind is this 'bug' actually fixed? To me, something is still not quite right. The system was more stable originally, just a pain to have to setup the dual screens on startup. Now I don't have to do this but a range of new symptoms have appeared. Superficially the aberrations are not deal breakers but that assumes (a) the symptoms are not indicative of something more serious, or (b) the system does not leave my 'blind' while doing some mission critical task resulting in data loss or corruption. If you can help resolve these questions, it would be greatly appreciated, as my confidence in the stability of the system is undermined everytime I see a screen that would normally just appear; flicker, repaint slowly or not appear to behave in the same way as normal. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160 Sunshine 3020 P: 03 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437 W: http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Display manager in Ubuntu 9.10 not working with dual displays properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538346 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nv in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp