Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-08-04 Thread Michael Rooney
That might work, I'm not sure. The important thing is to remove the manually installed version from nvidia if you had done that, and install nvidia-glx-180, then restart. If that doesn't work, I'd try aptitude purge nvidia-glx-180, then reinstalling, and seeing if that helps. Having various parts o

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-08-04 Thread Michael Rooney
hkais, how did you install the latest nvidia drivers? From a PPA? If so, which? https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates is the best place that I am aware of. Downloading and installing from nvidia directory is likely to cause problems and is not recommended. As with Ubuntu in genera

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-04-18 Thread selkovjr
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Rocko wrote: > @selkovjr: maybe some of the problems are not compiz-related? I found > the Jaunty beta kernel to be very unstable and I got a lot of kernel > panics that locked the system (see bug #348731), I would like to think so, but I'm not getting too many panics. Often w

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-04-18 Thread selkovjr
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Bryce Harrington wrote: > In Jaunty (9.04), we have just updated to the latest > nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 package from nVidia, version 180.44. > > This package provides fixes for a large number of bugs, and we need your > assistance in testing if it fixes the issue you repor

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-04-08 Thread selkovjr
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Anders Kaseorg wrote: > Here is a debdiff for compiz-fusion-plugins-main to add that workaround. > The new package is available in my PPA: > https://launchpad.net/~anders-kaseorg/+archive/ppa Thanks Anders, I didn't realize another assault on this bug was taking place on t

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-04-07 Thread Michael Rooney
I seem to be still experiencing this in the terminal and Wing IDE unfortunately. -- Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269904 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs ma

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-04-04 Thread Nick B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With Force synchronisation between X and GLX enabled the situation is better for me, however the problem still pops up from time to time. I still sometimes see the refresh problems with some Qt4 apps like Keepassx and VirtualBox. It's not as frequent a

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-02-20 Thread selkovjr
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Jan Krieg wrote: > Actually, there _is_ a workaround which works all the time at the cost > of a bit cpu time (at least for me). Just go to the compiz settings > manager (ccsm). Activate the 'draw fire' plugin It was of no help to me with any settings. The only thing that r

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-02-20 Thread aptgetmoo
Are you sure drawing the fire effect actually helps?I haven't tried by I think by doing that you are forcing the GPU to set to higher clock speed. That is why the screen refresh problem does not occur. I'm running Hardy and I fixed my GPU clock speed (geforce 8400m) to level 2. The problem does not

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2008-12-14 Thread superruzafa
I have no error since I installed the last driver from Nvidia's ftp. It's seems the official page shows up to 177.xx version but the ftp stores the 180.16 version. Anyway I have the same bugs only when I use a second screen from my laptop. ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/ 2008/12/14

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2008-10-23 Thread siliconeagle
I haven't noticed the bug for a while, so i would say its fixed for me. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:00 PM, enubuntu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the problem it's solved for me, but the refresh is very very very too > bad . :( > > -- > Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid > https://bu

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2008-10-16 Thread Stijn Van Nieuwenhuyse
As suggested by (R)om, remove --loose-binding in /usr/bin/compiz seems to be a workaround for me that solves the problem. I haven't got any refresh issues since I changed that. -- Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269904 You received this bug notifica

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2008-10-14 Thread Aaron Plattner
kiomava wrote: > things seem to be working well now. As BUGabundo pointed out it would > help to up the package version there, since trying this fix otherwise > requires removing/reinstalling the older compiz packages, and adding a > pin-priority entry in /etc/apt/preferences to do it the sources.

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2008-10-13 Thread wisecapt
I've noticed, that selection "Reload Window Manager" option in Compiz Fusion Icon fixes problem for me. -- Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269904 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2008-10-12 Thread Stijn Van Nieuwenhuyse
$ lspci -n | grep 300 01:00.0 0300: 10de:0429 (rev a1) $ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M (rev a1) -- Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269904 You received this bug notification because you are a m