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

2016-03-28 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: linux (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/1510660 T

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

2016-01-28 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Zero, given the original reporter has an Intel card, it will help immensely if you filed a new report with Ubuntu by ensuring you have the package xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information running the following from a terminal: ubuntu-b

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

2016-01-27 Thread Zero
I had this problem as well, starting with the welcome screens during the install. I believe it is something wrong in the Xorg video driver. My video card is a Maxwell based nVidia GTX 750 Ti. Despite the menus being almost completely illegible, I was able to navigate to the Settings Manager / Addit

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

2015-12-03 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
John Deakin, the next step is to fully reverse commit bisect from kernel 4.2 to 4.4-rc3 in order to identify the last bad commit, followed immediately by the first good one. Once this commit has been identified, then it may be reviewed as a candidate for backporting into your release. Could you ple

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

2015-12-03 Thread John Deakin
I have now updated the kernel to Linux 4.4.0-040400rc3-generic on i686 as instructed and the graphics appear to be working as they should. I cannot find the tag button as instructed in Christopher Penalver's e-mail. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, w

[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 availab

[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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1510660 Title: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade T

[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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1510660 Title: Screen icons and text corrupted after 15.10 upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go

[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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bu

[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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[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: [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 bu

[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,

Re: [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 me

[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 i

[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 in