Perhaps I should just get a new GPU card. Or a new system.
In the meantime, at boot this morning, the first thing I tried to do
after log-in was to access "Settings"; no response. After a few minutes
of 'nothing happening', I clicked the e-mail ("Thunderbird") icon; no
response there, as well. Went to the shutdown/restart panel (the
pull-down at the upper right), clicked "Restart", the system reported
that there was no response from "Thunderbird", switched to an
unpopulated version (no desktop icons or tool bars) of my screen
background image (with none of the corrupting artifact) and stalled.
Pushed the "big red reset" button (power), let it sit for a minute or
two, booted, and after log-in, went straight to e-mail, which behaved
more-or-less normally, accessed the 'net (no particular loss of browser
functionality), and here I am.
Nvidia 304 is a familiar number. I had to re-install that thing several
years ago; seems to me that it was pre-16.04, in fact. Took more than
one iteration of the install process to get it functioning properly;
recollection is that there was some issue with the digital video output.
I did have to switch to the VGA output on the board a couple of years
ago. Something finally got permanently hosed on the digital interface
side, and that may be the root cause now - some sort of problem in the
VGA interface.
On 1/24/20 12:46 AM, Daniel van Vugt wrote:
> Just checked the Nvidia web site and they recommend proprietary driver
> version 304 for your GPU (which also implies versions after 304 won't
> support it). It appears the reason why Software & Updates told you "No
> Additional Drivers Available" is because that's also older than any
> Nvidia shipped with Ubuntu 18.04.
>
> As a next step I would recommend you get the driver that Nvidia
> themselves recommend and manually install that:
> https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/123709/en-us
>
> Annoyingly, Ubuntu 16.04 does offer Nvidia driver version 304 but that
> Ubuntu release is older and did not ship with a version of Gnome Shell
> that we support.
>
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1860483
Title:
[nouveau, GeForce 7300 LE] screen background overlaid with scan type
artifact in red
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in mesa package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
My desktop has both it's usual items in place; toolbar on left and
desktop icons distributed around the screen. Then there's what appears
to be a bunch of scan line, raster line artifacts, in red, laid over
my normal background, which is a star field photo on what is
ordinarily a black field.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-74.84-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-74-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: amd64
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Jan 21 13:04:20 2020
DistUpgraded: 2018-10-03 14:38:19,863 DEBUG icon theme changed, re-reading
DistroCodename: bionic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
NVIDIA Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] [10de:01d1] (rev a1) (prog-if 00
[VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] [1028:0405]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-19 (1249 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
(20160719)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 531
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-74-generic
root=UUID=08d8f7c1-e351-4abe-8ebe-443d6a751497 ro plymouth:debug=1 quiet splash
vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-10-03 (474 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/09/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.0.7
dmi.board.name: 0RY206
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: ���
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.0.7:bd11/09/2007:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron531:pvr00:rvnDellInc.:rn0RY206:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 531
dmi.product.version: 00
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.13.1+18.04.20180302-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.99-1ubuntu1~18.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 19.2.1-1ubuntu1~18.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 19.2.1-1ubuntu1~18.04.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.3
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.5-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel
2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2
xserver.bootTime: Wed Oct 3 10:41:28 2018
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.devices:
input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 6
input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 7
input Dell Dell USB Keyboard KEYBOARD, id 8
input Logitech USB Trackball MOUSE, id 9
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.8
xserver.video_driver: nouveau
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