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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

[nvidia] Screen corrupts after a while: Most text elements replaced with horizontal, colored bars

Bug #633948 reported by Jonas Schwertfeger on 2010-09-09

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xorg

After some time my screen corrupts in that most text elements are replaced with horizontal lines that seem to be colored according to surrounding colors before the corruption (see screenshot). The screen still reacts to mouse and keyboard as before, but whatever control elements are redrawn contain those lines. Interestingly, some elements (like the Skype icon in the screenshot, or Java applications) do not suffer from this corruption. Switching to a console by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1 and then switching back into X solves the problem for the moment; the screen is still corrupted but forcing it do be redrawn by dragging around windows etc. redraws things correctly.

Unfortunately I have not been able to force the corruption by doing something specific. I am usually using two monitors connected to one graphics card (one connected through DVI and one through VGA) and it seems like the issue arises mostly when I have one monitor connected only (either on the DVI or the VGA port). I have seen it with two monitors also but much, much less frequently.

I think to remember not having this issue before upgrading to Lucid Lynx. It was definitely not there half a year ago. My guess would be it started after an nvidia driver update.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.43-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 9 13:08:08 2010
DkmsStatus:
nvidia-current, 195.36.24, 2.6.32-25-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 195.36.24, 2.6.32-22-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 195.36.24, 2.6.32-23-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 195.36.24, 2.6.32-24-generic, x86_64: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P55A-UD4
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic root=UUID=2db249d2-7807-4425-a482-ca308590bde3 ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
dmi.bios.date: 10/16/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F3
dmi.board.name: P55A-UD4
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.:bvrF3:bd10/16/2009:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnP55A-UD4:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnP55A-UD4:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: P55A-UD4
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: x86_64
kernel: 2.6.32-25-generic

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Jonas Schwertfeger (j-n-s08) wrote on 2010-09-09:

Photo of the corruption Edit (630.1 KiB, image/jpeg)
BootDmesg.txt Edit (63.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (6.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (4.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog.txt Edit (15.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog1.txt Edit (13.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog2.txt Edit (16.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (22.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (754 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciDisplay.txt Edit (827 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (6.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (3.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RelatedPackageVersions.txt Edit (231 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (128.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (289.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgConf.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (18.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (16.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (18.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
glxinfo.txt Edit (24.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
monitors.xml.txt Edit (514 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (348 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (22.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (51.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

summary:

- Screen corrupts after a while: Most text elements replaced with
+ [nvidia] Screen corrupts after a while: Most text elements replaced with
horizontal, colored bars

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2010-09-10

affects:

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

Revision history for this message

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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