Yes, I think that is the bug that affects several, if not many of us, in our workplace. We use Dell XPS-15-9550 laptops. I have Ubuntu 16.04 with proprietary Nvidia driver 361. I use this driver rather than nouveau, because its better support for connecting to HDMI TVs.
The borders are broad and not always completely black, sometimes they are dominated by coloured lines and sometimes they include odd character glyphs, particularly at the corners. (I say this just to help other recognise their problem as this). Thanks for the workaround, up until now I have had to reboot. But yes, if I change the screen layout using System Settings -> Screen Display when I have an extra display connected, then all is recovered. I guess there ought to be a more direct way of refreshing screen configuration, but this workaround is easy enough. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-361 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1576228 Title: Black borders around all windows Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-361 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: While using the nvidia proprietary drivers in 14.04 - 16.04, my Dell XPS L501X resumes from suspend, but displays wide black borders around all windows with close/minimize/maximize buttons blacked out as per attached screenshot. It occurs inconsistently, as it doesn't happen every time the computer resumes. Also there seems to be certain amount of performance degradation as if the graphics driver was running at half-strength. The "nVidia X Server Settings" app suggests its in maximum performance mode. Adhoc Workaround: switch display layout (I have an external monitor/TV attached to HDMI port) changing anything such as arrangement or resolution of the displays, etc. corrects the black border issue. WORKAROUND: Use nouveau. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia .proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0000.02.00.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:02:00.0' .proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: "" .proc.driver.nvidia.version: NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 361.42 Tue Mar 22 18:10:58 PDT 2016 GCC version: gcc version 5.3.1 20160413 (Ubuntu 5.3.1-14ubuntu2) .proc.driver.nvidia.warnings.fbdev: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in corruption and stability problems, and is not supported. .tmp.unity_support_test.0: ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 BootLog: [[0;32m OK [0m] Started LSB: Speech Dispatcher. CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: compiz CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0' CompositorUnredirectFSW: true CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Apr 28 18:43:37 2016 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: xenial DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: bbswitch, 0.8, 4.4.0-21-generic, x86_64: installed nvidia-361, 361.42, 4.4.0-21-generic, x86_64: installed ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical GraphicsCard: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 435M] [10de:0df2] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell GF108M [GeForce GT 435M] [1028:046e] InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-23 (4 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1) MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS L501X ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-21-generic root=UUID=f657e606-ac2a-49cd-9f3e-fca6a315338d ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 07/26/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A08 dmi.board.name: 0J1VR3 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A08 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: A08 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA08:bd07/26/2011:svnDellInc.:pnXPSL501X:pvrA08:rvnDellInc.:rn0J1VR3:rvrA08:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA08: dmi.product.name: XPS L501X dmi.product.version: A08 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-* N/A version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2 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 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2 xserver.bootTime: Thu Apr 28 17:09:49 2016 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.outputs: xserver.version: 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-361/+bug/1576228/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
