10de:0405 Display suddenly becomes a mess, rendering whole system unusable
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have a laptop and use an external display connected to it, and I often switch screen using "disper -s" and "disper -S". This issue happened little after (but _not_ immediately after) switching screen with disper -S.
The screen suddenly became a total flockering mess with white dots, stripes, repeated or distorted pieces of graphics, flickerings, and all sort of frenetically changing garbage all over the screen.
"Behind" this mess, the system appeared to keep working (I could open and close programs, if I could almost see what I was doing).
Logging out didn't fix the issue; restarting did.
I had never ever observed this in 12.04 and until now.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: nvidia-current 304.51.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
.proc.driver.
.proc.driver.
.proc.driver.
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 304.43 Sun Aug 19 20:20:21 PDT 2012
GCC version: gcc version 4.7.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1)
.tmp.unity.
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Sat Jan 26 15:55:31 2013
DistUpgraded: 2013-01-13 11:55:33,566 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
nvidia-current, 304.43, 3.2.0-36-generic, i686: installedError! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File: does not exist.
nvidia-current, 304.43, 3.5.0-22-generic, i686: installed
GraphicsCard:
NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 9500M GS] [10de:0405] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:15d2]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-06-23 (948 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M51Sn
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: nvidia-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2013-01-13 (13 days ago)
XorgLogOld:
dmi.bios.date: 12/24/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 303
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: M51Sn
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: M51Sn
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
modified.
mtime.conffile.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.6-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
This bug appears to be related to bug 568492, probably it is a duplicate.