[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-05-18 Thread gouri
The bug is still triggered (not always) by suspend-to-ram then wake-up. This make a frustrating user experience since the most affordable workaround is to close the session the reopen it when bug occurs. Since many applications are defaced (see screenshots), the user cannot properly check if

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-18 Thread gouri
Unfortunately, the bug occurred again a few minutes ago. This means that uninstalling light-locker and using xscreensaver instead is not enough to prevent the bug from occurring. AFAIK, doing so avoids light-locker creating possibly short-lived X servers (for the purpose of asking password for

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-15 Thread gouri
Hello Christopher @penalvch. > Could you please report this problem through the appropriate channel by following the instructions verbatim at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/ ? I performed part of it. The situation passed the "TroubleShooting" step. I checked on the bugzilla, visited

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-14 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
gouri, the issue you are reporting is an upstream one. Could you please report this problem through the appropriate channel by following the instructions verbatim at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/ ? Please provide a direct URL to your bug report once you have made it so that it may be

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-14 Thread gouri
After another failed attempt at installing nVidia driver through software-properties-gtk here is another bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-361/+bug/1556960 So bugs happens every few days. Hypothesis: bug happens when another X server is run. This

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-14 Thread gouri
Still occurs with latest build xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2 *Bug is severely impacting for daily work.* Strangely enough, video worked rather well with 14.10 and 15.04, we mainly had trouble with NetworkManager there. After using Ubuntu more than 10 years now (first was

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-14 Thread gouri
Nouveau driver seems active according to dmesg. [0.721176] nouveau :01:00.0: NVIDIA GM107 (117110a2) [0.747014] nouveau :01:00.0: bios: version 82.07.2a.00.17 [0.856760] nouveau :01:00.0: fb: 4096 MiB DDR3 [0.856814] nouveau :01:00.0: priv: HUB0: 10ecc0

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-05 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Triaged -- 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/1547077 Title: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-05 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Tags removed: has-workaround -- 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/1547077 Title: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-05 Thread gouri
Laptop stickers show: nVidia GeForce GTX 850M and lspci shows both nVidia and Intel graphics. I'm not quite sure if nouveau or intel driver is used. egrep '(intel|nouveau)' -i Xorg.0.log -o | sort | uniq -c 62 intel 9 Intel 1 INTEL 12 nouveau 2 NOUVEAU Can anyone

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-05 Thread gouri
As requested by @penalvch, checked what the BIOS offers. Answer: the BIOS does not offer to disable any intel or nividia chip. In "Graphics Configuration", the BIOS only offers "DVMT Pre-Allocated" with values 64M 128M 256M 512M, currently set to default 64M. -- You received this bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-05 Thread gouri
Summary: trying proprietary nVidia driver as a workaround does not work. I tried again to switch to nvidia-driver using GUI tool software- properties-gtk This caused again nvidia driver installation failure. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-361/+bug/1553554 Last

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-05 Thread gouri
Summary: trying proprietary nVidia driver as a workaround does not work. I tried again to switch to nvidia-driver using GUI tool software- properties-gtk This caused again nvidia driver installation failure. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-361/+bug/1553554 Last

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-01 Thread gouri
I'll try that BIOS test. In the meantime I thought I'd try again nVidia proprietary driver. Installation of package was requested through Ubuntu driver selection GUI. Resulted in 2 new bugs automatically notified and reported: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bbswitch/+bug/1552108

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-01 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
gouri, to further narrow down, are you able to disable either the Intel or nvidia card in BIOS? If so, what happens when you disable one versus the other? ** Description changed: # Summary - * Some glyphs badly drawn at some moments. * When happens, same glyph drawn on various windows

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-01 Thread gouri
@penalvch this goes into complications. Actually, I've been using 16.04 and Intel driver because in 14.10, 15.04 and 15.10, all solutions (open-source nouveau driver, open-source intel driver and proprietary nVidia driver) have had different problems (but not this problem). -- You received this

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-01 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
gouri, to see if a WORKAROUND is available, could you please test the nvidia drivers via Additional Drivers and advise to the results? ** Tags added: latest-bios-203 ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Low => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-01 Thread gouri
Hello. Suspending then resuming system seems to have some effect. This morning, after resume from suspend (with session still open), all text glyphs appeared blank on the lightdm screen. I expected the session to be fully unusable, but surprisingly, the session itself has had no problem at all

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-03-01 Thread gouri
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected has-workaround regression reproducible ubuntu ** Description changed: # Summary * Some glyphs badly drawn at some moments. * When happens, same glyph drawn on various windows shows same corruption. * Problem comes and go. #

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-02-22 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
gouri, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Could you please run the following command once from a terminal by ensuring you have the package xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information: apport-collect -p xorg

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-02-18 Thread gouri
** Description changed: # Summary * Some glyphs badly drawn at some moments. * When happens, same glyph drawn on various windows shows same corruption. * Problem comes and go. # Context Laptop, using Intel driver. Expected: all glyphs rendered correctly. Observed:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-02-18 Thread gouri
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-02-18 Thread gouri
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-02-18 Thread gouri
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-02-18 Thread gouri
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-02-18 Thread gouri
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-02-18 Thread gouri
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-02-18 Thread gouri
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-02-18 Thread gouri
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-02-18 Thread gouri
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1547077] Re: Some glyphs drawn consistently wrong, bug comes and go

2016-02-18 Thread gouri
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