Laptop (Dell XPS-M1210) monitor flickers using nvidia-180.xx drivers

[karlbowden]

Ubuntu 8.10-amd64
~/ lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72M [GeForce Go 7400] (rev a1)

Using ubuntu nvidia-glx-180.11 or PPA driver nvidia-glx-180.29-0ubuntu1~andersk1~intrepid1

I do not have any problems with drivers 173 or 177, Only 180's. Have tried 180.11 and 180.29

I have a laptop with an external monitor that I use in twinview. When I upgraded to 180.11 and rebooted the laptop screen flickers like when interlacing is enabled on CRT monitors. Only once X starts, and only on the laptop screen. The external screen is crystal clear. It's like the lines have all been shifted up half a line, and they are slightly fuzzy but still readable. It's just hard on the eyes. Not sure how else to describe it.

The laptop screen also appears like it is limited in the number of colours it displays compared to the external monitor as the gradient background image appears to have bands through it instead of being sooth like on the other monitor.

It happens with both of the 180 series drivers I tried. It also happens when the external monitor is disconnected.

I have tried deleting /etc/X11/xorg.conf and running nvidia-xconfig but it still produces the same problem.

It will go away if I go into nvidia-settings and change any setting related to the laptop screen. Ie, set refresh rate to auto instead of 60hz or vice versa and hit apply. The screen will flash black for a second the become crystal clear again. Until I restart X again.

Anything else I can try?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-glx-180 180.29-0ubuntu1~andersk1~intrepid1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/home/username/apps/bin:/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi karlbowden,

Thanks for including the attached files. Could you also include your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (or Xorg.0.log.old) from after reproducing the issue?

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[karlbowden (karlbowden)]

I upgraded to Ubuntu-9.04 before I could test this again sorry. I did a clean install and enabled the nvidia-glx-180 driver without any of the side effects I encountered previously. I think it's fair to say that this was just an anomaly with my system and the bug can be marked as invalid.
Cheers,
Karl

[pwhittin (pwhittington)]

I too upgraded to 9.04, however it was not a clean install, it was just an upgrade from 8.10. In 8.10 I could not run nvidia 180 driver I had to run the previous one. The 9.04 upgrade installed the 180 and enabled, and now it all works. It must not have been the nvidia driver that was the problem, but all is well now.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've posted a new version of the -nvidia driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 185.18.14 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.