Re: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-16 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryce Stenberg wrote: >> -Original Message- From: Hadley Rich >> [mailto:h...@nice.net.nz] Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2009 1:46 >> p.m. >> >> There are some issues with some Intel Xorg drivers in Ubuntu >> 9.04. I don't know if this effects your

RE: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-16 Thread Bryce Stenberg
>-Original Message- >From: Hadley Rich [mailto:h...@nice.net.nz] >Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2009 1:46 p.m. > >There are some issues with some Intel Xorg drivers in Ubuntu 9.04. I >don't know if this effects your chipset but if so, you've basically got >three options. > >1. Try fixing/workin

RE: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-12 Thread Bryce Stenberg
>-Original Message- >From: Hadley Rich [mailto:h...@nice.net.nz] >Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2009 1:46 p.m. >There are some issues with some Intel Xorg drivers in Ubuntu 9.04. I >don't know if this effects your chipset but if so, you've basically got >three options. > >1. Try fixing/working

RE: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-12 Thread Hadley Rich
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 13:39 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > I'll keep searching and see what I can figure out. There are some issues with some Intel Xorg drivers in Ubuntu 9.04. I don't know if this effects your chipset but if so, you've basically got three options. 1. Try fixing/working around th

RE: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-12 Thread Bryce Stenberg
>-Original Message- >From: Craig Falconer [mailto:cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz] >Sent: Wednesday, 12 August 2009 12:27 p.m. >Could be the Ubuntu-provided Xorg driver for this chipset. >Check out /var/log/xorg.0.log (or similar) and look for errors (lines >with ee at the start) No error line

Re: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-11 Thread Craig Falconer
Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 12/08/09 11:52: From: Craig Falconer [mailto:cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz] What graphics card/chipset is in the machine? Display controller by Intel with chipset 92930 Could be the Ubuntu-provided Xorg driver for this chipset. Check out /var/log/xorg.0.log (or similar) an

RE: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-11 Thread Bryce Stenberg
>-Original Message- >From: Craig Falconer [mailto:cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz] >Sent: Tuesday, 11 August 2009 1:45 p.m. >It sounds like its powersaving which is causing the problem. >Is there a difference in the video between screen blanking and suspend? Suspend does not work under ubuntu on

Re: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-10 Thread Craig Falconer
Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 11/08/09 12:54: -Original Message- From: Craig Falconer [mailto:cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz] My suspicion is maybe your video ram is going slowly sour, or perhaps the display is dying. There is nothing wrong with the display when booted to windows xp, only issues a

RE: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-10 Thread Bryce Stenberg
>-Original Message- >From: Craig Falconer [mailto:cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz] >Sent: Friday, 7 August 2009 6:10 p.m. > >My suspicion is maybe your video ram is going slowly sour, or perhaps >the display is dying. > There is nothing wrong with the display when booted to windows xp, only issue

RE: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-10 Thread Bryce Stenberg
>-Original Message- >From: Phill Coxon [mailto:phi...@xtra.co.nz] >Sent: Sunday, 9 August 2009 7:23 p.m. > >If the display starts off ok and gets worse over time getting >increasingly "blobby" it might possibly be an over-heating problem. > >If it's an older notebook check the fan vents on

Re: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-09 Thread Phill Coxon
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 15:33 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > It mostly goes except the display sometimes has issues. > > Icons often become fuzzy scratches instead of nice pictures. > > Fonts, especially in firefox, start to become blobby and run into each > and eventually unreadable. > I don't t