[Bug 1354841] Re: Screen corruption (characters are drawn as black squares)

2015-04-25 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for xorg (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1354841 Tit

[Bug 1354841] Re: Screen corruption (characters are drawn as black squares)

2015-01-11 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Tags added: saucy ** Tags removed: bios-outdated-a16 ** Tags added: latest-bios-a16 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1354841 Title: Screen corruption (characters are drawn as black

[Bug 1354841] Re: Screen corruption (characters are drawn as black squares)

2015-01-10 Thread M
Looks related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/1034110 except that I have an Intel card -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1354841 Title: Screen corruption (character

[Bug 1354841] Re: Screen corruption (characters are drawn as black squares)

2015-01-10 Thread M
Hello, The bug is still there after upgrading the BIOS. I should add that I only have the problem with Firefox and Thunderbird, but not the KDE apps. I suspect the problem is related to GTK: some programs like grsync and gimp seem OK, but I've seen they don't display much text like firefox or thu

[Bug 1354841] Re: Screen corruption (characters are drawn as black squares)

2014-11-18 Thread M
Dear Christopher, Thank you for checking the BIOS version, I haven't thought about that. I have already done several BIOS upgrades on this machine, so it shouldn't be a problem. I will update the bug report accordingly once it is done Thank you Matthieu PS: I have at this very moment the "white"

[Bug 1354841] Re: Screen corruption (characters are drawn as black squares)

2014-11-18 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
M, as per http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/latitude-e5510/drivers an update to your BIOS is available (A16). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything? If it doesn't, could you please both specify what

[Bug 1354841] Re: Screen corruption (characters are drawn as black squares)

2014-11-18 Thread M
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected ** Description changed: Sometimes, the characters are rendered as black squares (cf attachment). I couldn't find any event in the systems logs that could explain that. I can "stop" the bug by changing the anti-aliasing options in the system

[Bug 1354841] Re: Screen corruption (characters are drawn as black squares)

2014-11-18 Thread M
Yes it still happens from time to time on 14.04 Actually, I think it didn't happen at all in Sept-Oct, but it happened a couple of times in Nov. It coincides with the reboot I did at the beginning of Nov to upgrade the system, but I can't tell if it's related to the bug due to its highly intermi

[Bug 1354841] Re: Screen corruption (characters are drawn as black squares)

2014-11-17 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
M, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to t