notifications are all black with some pixel artifacts

[Kolomona]

Binary package hint: notify-osd

All NotifyOSD noticications appear as black with random pixels.

They work fine when I boot with the Live CD. They also worked when I first installed Ubuntu.

I suspect it's a video card driver issue.

I was unsuccessful in using EnvyNG to install the ATI video driver.

I then booted into recovery mode, and ran envyng --uninstall-all

Since then all NotifyOSD notifications have appeared this way.

I've attached a screenshot

Machine info
IBM ThinkPad T-30
16MB RADEON 7500 ATI Mobility video chipset
Additional specs can be found here.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-42218.html

apt-cache policy notify-osd
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

notify-osd:
  Installed: 0.9.24-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.9.24-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.24-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

My xorg.conf

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf for T30 2366-85U
# with ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 (M7) GPU
# running UNR 9.10

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "ati"
 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
 #Option "GARTSize" "16"
 #Option "AGPMode" "4"
 #Option "DPMS"
 Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Monitor "Configured Monitor"
 Device "Configured Video Device"
 Option "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 21 08:47:54 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
GtkTheme: Human
IconTheme: Humanity
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Lsusb:
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 4971:ce12
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0047 Microsoft Corp. IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: IBM 236685U
Package: notify-osd 0.9.24-0ubuntu1
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
 Socket 1:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
 Socket 1:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic root=UUID=8b2c72b5-2f95-4d30-a319-a0013e096f8b ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2.1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: notify-osd
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686
WindowManager: metacity
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:7127): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:7235): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:7253): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (firefox:10398): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
dmi.bios.date: 08/08/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 1IET70WW (2.09 )
dmi.board.name: 236685U
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1IET70WW(2.09):bd08/08/2005:svnIBM:pn236685U:pvrNotAvailable:rvnIBM:rn236685U:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 236685U
dmi.product.version: Not Available
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM

[Steve McGrath (smcgrath23)]

I've marked this as a duplicate of bug #426582. It's a problem with the new Xorg and ATI Radeon 7500 chipsets. There's a few workarounds noted on the other bug report.