I am also having the same problem on Gutsy, and I too have a multiseat setup (two nVidia cards using the nvidia 169.09 driver). The shift only seems to happen on the first seat, although my second seat is rarely used. The shift doesn't happen very often, especially since I added the "isolateDevice" parameter to my gdm.conf-custom, but it does seem to happen fairly reliably upon shutdown.
My guess is that the patch in the LKML thread mentioned in the original post (and present in 2.6.22, see http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2ae854777592856ad8ce4d4cdb6114804e2e28f6) fixed most instances of the screen shift problem, but there's something about multiseat X setups that allow the occasional write to /dev/console to leak through and cause a scroll. There seems to be a few similar Ubuntu bugs (bug #75214, bug #100105, and bug #139546) but I'm guessing that kernel 2.6.22 used in Gutsy resolved those. I think that the only remaining instances of this screen shift issue are in multiseat X setups. luis: Are you still able to reproduce this in Gutsy? I can't figure out how to reproduce it. Also, would you mind changing the subject to mention "multiseat" so that this doesn't get marked as a duplicate to the other screen shift bugs? ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- screen shifts right when /dev/console written to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153425 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
