VLC will no longer function.
When attempting to play a DVD movie, the screen goes white with black speckled effect.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-96.119-generic 4.4.83
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-96-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Fri Sep 22 17:23:34 2017
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
bbswitch, 0.8, 4.4.0-92-generic, x86_64: installed
bbswitch, 0.8, 4.4.0-93-generic, x86_64: installed
bbswitch, 0.8, 4.4.0-96-generic, x86_64: installed
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
NVIDIA Corporation GK104M [GeForce GTX 880M] [10de:1198] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell GK104M [GeForce GTX 880M] [1028:05ae]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-20 (33 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
MachineType: Alienware Alienware 17
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-96-generic root=UUID=5d561490-ed57-4448-9388-c0aa28db7add ro drm.debug=0xe plymouth:debug vesafb.invalid=1 nopat
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/24/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: Alienware
dmi.bios.version: A14
dmi.board.name: 04WT2G
dmi.board.vendor: Alienware
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Alienware
dmi.chassis.version: A14
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAlienware:bvrA14:bd09/24/2014:svnAlienware:pnAlienware17:pvrA14:rvnAlienware:rn04WT2G:rvrA00:cvnAlienware:ct8:cvrA14:
dmi.product.name: Alienware 17
dmi.product.version: A14
dmi.sys.vendor: Alienware
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160823-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.76-1~ubuntu16.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 17.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 17.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.4
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1.2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2
Douglas L. Turnbull, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.
1) Is this something that started to happen after an update? If so, which specifically?
2) Does this issue happen with all DVDs or only certain ones?
3) After the issue happens, are there any crash files in /var/crash?
4) To see if this is already resolved in your release, could you please test http://