White desktop, no launcher icons
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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compiz (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS from CD I experience the behavior described in bug #902670:
The main desktop area is dead white. No display of anything except the pointer cursor.
The launcher bar shows in some kind of purple, but without icons. Hovering the mouse over the launcher bar flashes 'tooltip' descriptions of what should be there. These extend over the white desktop.
The top 'tray' bar shows with its proper icons.
Pressing Alt-F2, for example, leads to a window over the white desktop area.
Immediately after logging in, I can see the correct background, but then it's immediately covered with the white block.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6+12ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite
CurrentDmesg:
[ 26.249211] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Output VGA-1 is running on CRTC 0 using output A
[ 31.904010] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 280.391482] show_signal_msg: 21 callbacks suppressed
[ 280.391490] gnome-settings-
Date: Mon May 7 13:28:29 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
NVIDIA Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600] [10de:0312] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:9123]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
Lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
ProcEnviron:
TERM=linux
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/03/2003
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: MS-6701
dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixT
dmi.sys.vendor: MEDIONPC
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.6-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
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affects: | xorg (Ubuntu) → compiz (Ubuntu) |
After deinstalling xserver- xorg-video- nouveau everything works as expected. So it seems to be a problem of the interaction of the driver with the graphics card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600] [10de:0312] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
I changed the target of this bug accrodingly.
Since it's a friend's computer, I won't be able to do more testing on this.