Background solid color causes noise

[Michal Pasniewski]

Setting background to Solid color (Black) causes noise to appear on background (instead of black). This regularly happens on resume from sleep.

See also
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/8ezq2q/strange_graphics_bug_ubuntu_1710_background/

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-88.88-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-88-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0000.01.00.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:01:00.0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 390.116 Sun Jan 27 07:21:36 PST 2019
 GCC version: gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1)
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.11
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Feb 26 07:09:26 2020
DistUpgraded: 2018-09-03 16:17:03,502 ERROR got error from PostInstallScript ./xorg_fix_proprietary.py (g-exec-error-quark: Failed to execute child process “./xorg_fix_proprietary.py” (No such file or directory) (8))
DistroCodename: bionic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 nvidia, 390.116, 4.15.0-76-generic, x86_64: installed
 nvidia, 390.116, 4.15.0-88-generic, x86_64: installed
 virtualbox, 5.2.34, 4.15.0-76-generic, x86_64: installed
 virtualbox, 5.2.34, 4.15.0-88-generic, x86_64: installed
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] [10de:1b06] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] [3842:6593]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-27 (852 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
MachineType: MSI MS-7A62
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/fish
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-88-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-09-03 (540 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/10/2017
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.30
dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.board.name: Z270 GAMING M3 (MS-7A62)
dmi.board.vendor: MSI
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: MSI
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1.30:bd07/10/2017:svnMSI:pnMS-7A62:pvr1.0:rvnMSI:rnZ270GAMINGM3(MS-7A62):rvr1.0:cvnMSI:ct3:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.family: Default string
dmi.product.name: MS-7A62
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MSI
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.99-1ubuntu1~18.04.2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 19.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 19.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-* N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.3
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1855757, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.