Christopher Penalver (message #3) I have experimented with the bios upgrade as you suggest.
I managed to upgrade the bios as you requested to 2.6.3 but this does not seem to solve the problem; when I boot from today's Saucy image, I still get the weird herringbone stripey screen. The workaround is still to wait for the screen to blank and then when it reactivates it appears to be normal. I do not understand your comment "Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful". I will assume that you mean I must do the update before I do the sudo dmidecode... and not that you mean opening a new bug report. If I assume incorrectly, please let me know. Therefore, the results of the commands are: clh@valencia:~$ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date 2.6.3 12/07/2007 clh@valencia:~$ In case anyone else is interested, I made a valiant effort to update the bios from Linux but this is one of those new bios updaters that "must" be run from Windows, and I could not get any of the methods noted in the link provided by Christopher to work. I am therefore embarrassed to say that I had the Windows install disks handy and therefore used them to upgrade the bios. On the bright side, this is the first time since 2005 that I have used Windows to do anything. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1234429 Title: vertical coloured lines / herringbone pattern on startup To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1234429/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
