Screen image corrupted and jumbled up

[Captain Chaos]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

I have installed Kubuntu 10.04 beta1 64-bits on my system equipped with two NVIDIA Geforce 8800 GTX cards. I have also installed all the latest updates. A short while after logging in, the screen starts to become more and more corrupted. It looks like small, random sections of the screen get displaced a few pixels horizontally or vertically all over the screen.

I have attached a screenshot showing the problem. The problem seems to get progressively worse. At first I thought the text in the terminal and in the Konqueror window was not affected, but after minimizing and restoring the Konqueror window in which I am typing this a few times the contents of the terminal window, and of this Konqueror window, became jumbled up as well.

This problem makes Kubuntu completely unusable for me! The problem becomes progressively worse, to the point where controls are so jumbled up I can no longer make them out...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100219+9b4118d-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 27 17:34:38 2010
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
GdmLog:
 Error: command ['kdesudo', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log'] failed with exit code 1: QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
 QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/pepijn/.config/ibus/bus
 Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
 IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
 cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log: No such file or directory
GdmLog1: Error: command ['kdesudo', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.1'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1: No such file or directory
GdmLog2: Error: command ['kdesudo', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.2'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.2: No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
MachineType: MSI MS-7346
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-16-generic root=/dev/sdb6
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
dmi.bios.date: 03/26/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: V1.3
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: MS-7346
dmi.board.vendor: MSI
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV1.3:bd03/26/2008:svnMSI:pnMS-7346:pvr1.0:rvnMSI:rnMS-7346:rvr1.0:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: MS-7346
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MSI
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.32-16-generic

[TylerJ (gotylergo)]

Upon install, Ubuntu loaded this driver incorrectly. I have several screenshots. The problem went away after installing proprietary nvidia drivers and rebooting.

[TylerJ (gotylergo)]

Also, this is affecting me in the final release of 10.4, not a beta or an upgraded version. This was a clean install of 10.4 after release.

[Arthur Țițeică (arthur-titeica)]

The same is going on in Maverick ever since I've installed it. I have a Nvidia GeForce 9600M.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Captain Chaos, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-video-nouveau REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]