[i810e] Some screen savers have visual artifacts

[Eric Hickman]

Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver

Ubuntu (9.04)
gnome-screensaver: Installed: 2.24.0-0ubuntu5

Choosing some of the screen savers from gnome-screensaver-preferences causing visual artifacts and does not preview correctly. With one in particular, causes my computer display to stop working altogether and must be restarted.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-10-generic i686

[lspci]
       description: VGA compatible controller

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

which video card and driver are you using? that's more lke a video issue rather than an application one.

[Eric Hickman (enhickman)]

here is the hardware information
how should i find what driver is being used xorg.conf does not say much.
Its an old compaq Presario that i use just for testing

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03)

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi tw1tch,

Thanks for including an image to demonstrate the issue. Could you also please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log or Xorg.0.log.old file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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[Eric Hickman (enhickman)]

Attaching xorg.o.log and output of lspci -vvnn

[Eric Hickman (enhickman)]

I have not made any changes to xorg.conf myself

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automatic notification.]

A new major version of the -intel driver is now available in Karmic.

This version includes a major reworking of the acceleration
architecture, which resolves a huge number of issues. We do not know
whether it resolves the issue you reported.

Would you mind testing Karmic Alpha-2 and seeing if it is still a
problem? CD ISO images are available here:

  http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/

If the issue can still be reproduced on karmic, please report here with
your findings, and attach a fresh Xorg.0.log from your test, and we will
be able to forward the bug upstream.

Otherwise, if the bug no longer exists in Karmic, let us know that as
well.

In the off chance you encounter different bugs while attempting to test
Karmic, please report those as new bug reports.

[Eric Hickman (enhickman)]

Did an upgrade from 9.04 to karmic, i believe up to alpha 3. problem is still occurring.

[Geir Ove Myhr (gomyhr)]

This bug report has been inactive for quite some time and in the meantime Ubuntu has moved along. I hope the reported problem has been resolved in the current version of Ubuntu. If it has not and there are people willing to follow up with information collecting and testing, it is best to file a new bug report with the latest Ubuntu development version (currently 10.04, but soon 10.10), using the ubuntu-bug command if possible. Feel free to mention the bug number of this bug.

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