Upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 produces a display with way too much black
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
1.) alain@alain-pc:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04
2.) alain@alain-pc:~$ apt-cache policy xserver-
xserver-
Installed: 1:1.0.12-1build2
Candidate: 1:1.0.12-1build2
Version table:
*** 1:1.0.12-1build2 500
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
3.) What you expected to happen
A nice and colorful display of my KDE desktop, where I can actually recognize the features (panel, command entry widget, etc.) rather than have to grasp for them in the dark.
4.) What happened instead
After a do-release-upgrade going from 14.04 to 16.04
Entire desktop is composed of black or very dark grey items, which can almost not be seen (but present, as the elements do react when clicked upon)
After uninstalling xserver-
Took a non-trivial amount of googling to find this solution though (... after many non-solutions)