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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

Console text flickers and moves vertically nvidia

Bug #564451 reported by Erik B. Andersen on 2010-04-16

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xorg

On my Nvidia Geforce Go 6100 on my laptop, with the nvidia binary blob driver, the text in the Ctrl Alt F[1-6] consoles flicker. By flicker, I mean that the text moves up and down a few pixels multiple times a second. This happens continually, but the exact subsecond spacing of the movement seems to be random.
Oddly, when I plugged in an external monitor and set up the computer show that they show different things, the external monitor doesn't exhibit this odd behavior, while the internal monitor continues to exhibit the odd behavior.

This only happens with the nvidia binary blob driver.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 15 23:40:43 2010
DkmsStatus: nvidia-current, 195.36.15, 2.6.32-19-generic, x86_64: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100323)
Lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard Presario F500 (GF606UA#ABA)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic root=UUID=456c3bb7-7cec-40c4-9ae5-1c30c9e1c477 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LC_CTYPE=C
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: xorg
dmi.bios.date: 12/05/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.1F
dmi.board.name: 30D3
dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
dmi.board.version: 65.3A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.1F:bd12/05/2007:svnHewlett-Packard:pnPresarioF500(GF606UA#ABA):pvrRev1:rvnQuanta:rn30D3:rvr65.3A:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Presario F500 (GF606UA#ABA)
dmi.product.version: Rev 1
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: x86_64
kernel: 2.6.32-19-generic

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Erik B. Andersen (azendale) wrote on 2010-04-16:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (40.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (657 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (4.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog.txt Edit (11.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog1.txt Edit (13.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog2.txt Edit (13.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (13.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciDisplay.txt Edit (783 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RelatedPackageVersions.txt Edit (231 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (100.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (221.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgConf.txt Edit (213 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (14.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (16.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (361 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (30.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (57.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2010-04-16

affects:

xorg (Ubuntu) → nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)

Erik B. Andersen (azendale) on 2010-04-16

description:

updated

Erik B. Andersen (azendale) on 2010-05-09

description:

updated

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dino99 (9d9) wrote on 2015-06-26:

That version is no more supported; please open a new bug report if the actual archive found version also has the same issue.

Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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