Display shows scan lines after updating from Beta to Release Oneiric

[Jim Patterson]

I was running Oneiric beta, but have not done a software update for two weeks. When I updated to the current (release + 10 days) code, my display went wonky. There are hundreds of moving scan-lines corrupting the image.

Since it seems to be a display issue I checked for the proprietary fglrx driver. It showed as not installed on the System Settings Additional Drivers applet. I tried to install the selected driver, labelled "ATI/AMD Proprietary FGLRX driver (Post-release updates)". It failed, and referred me to /var/log/jockey.log for more info (I've attached it though it may have been appended to or overwritten with the next update).

I moved on to the next driver, labelled "ATI/AMD Proprietary FGLRX driver" (I assume this went out with release). After rebooting with this driver, which successfully installed, my display is back to normal.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: fglrx 2:8.881-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.21-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: fc2d0c1a9f7a9107c5104c45d6ee1b22
CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f7770f606350a390a2
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,imgpng,snap,resize,compiztoolbox,vpswitch,place,gnomecompat,unitymtgrabhandles,session,grid,mousepoll,move,regex,animation,wall,workarounds,expo,fade,scale,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Sun Oct 23 00:01:33 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-09-05 17:55:34.813996
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD 4250] [1002:9715] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:d000]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
JockeyStatus:
 xorg:fglrx_updates - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release updates) (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
 xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-880GMA-UD2H
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-13-generic root=UUID=b03a0127-12be-4473-b449-d77287d48ba5 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
UdevDb: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-01 (22 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/28/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F4
dmi.board.name: GA-880GMA-UD2H
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF4:bd07/28/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-880GMA-UD2H:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-880GMA-UD2H:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GA-880GMA-UD2H
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu5
version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu26
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1