[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1510660] Re: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade

2015-11-27 Thread John Deakin
I have booted into Grub2 and selected to boot into Linux 3.19.32-generic. Is this what you meant me to do? Having done that I find no problems with the icons/text. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1510660] Re: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade

2015-11-27 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
John Deakin, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available from the very top line at the top of the page from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/?C=N;O=D (the release names are irrelevant for testing, and please do not test the daily folder)? Install instructions are

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1510660] Re: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade

2015-11-24 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
John Deakin, for instructions please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1510660 Title: Screen icons and text corrupted after

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1510660] Re: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade

2015-11-24 Thread John Deakin
Christopher, I am not sure how to do this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1510660 Title: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade Status in xorg package in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1510660] Re: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade

2015-11-22 Thread John Deakin
I have run Xenial from a DVD having upgraded the BIOS to the latest version as advised and the symptoms remain exactly the same. ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1510660] Re: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade

2015-11-22 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
John Deakin, if you boot into a kernel from the prior release, is this still reproducible? ** Tags added: xenial ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1510660] Re: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade

2015-11-21 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
John Deakin, as mentioned in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1510660/comments/25 you don't need to create new reports. Despite this, to see if this is already resolved in Ubuntu, could you please test http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ and advise to the results? **

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1510660] Re: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade

2015-11-02 Thread John Deakin
Christopher, I have tried in a number of ways to update the BIOS but failed. The computer does not have UEFI and there is no option to use "Flash BIOS upgrade" when using F12. I cannot burn the iso image for FreeDOS to a memory stick (to use it to install the BIOS update .exe file) and when I

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1510660] Re: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade

2015-11-01 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
John Deakin, as per http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product- support/product/vostro-220/drivers an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (1.3.0). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything? If it doesn't,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1510660] Re: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade

2015-11-01 Thread John Deakin
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected ubuntu ** Description changed: Since upgrading to 15.10 I am having trouble with most of the desktop and other icons and some text. The problem seems to be that the screen painting lines are out of synch. This means that most of the

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1510660] Re: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade

2015-11-01 Thread John Deakin
Christopher, Thank you for your help. I installed xdiagnose and then python-apport. I followed your instructions as best I could as some of the button text was corrupted by this problem. I assume everything went as expected as I enabled System-wide: Ubuntu in Launchpad. This generated a lot of

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1510660] Re: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade

2015-11-01 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
John Deakin, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Could you please run the following command from a terminal as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report: apport-collect -p xorg 1510660 Please ensure you have the package xdiagnose