[feisty] brief glitch at the bottom of the screen after gdm starts with i915 graphics card

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add your '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' file and your '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' file as attachments to your bug report? Thanks in advance.

Thank you for your response. I have attached the requested files. Also included is /etc/default/915resolution.

The bug is only present while Xorg starts up, i.e. while the screen is (otherwise) black and the spinning cursor is shown. As soon as the Ubuntu login screen comes up, everything looks fine.

Let me know if I can provide more information or run some tests.

Thank you for looking into this.

The xserver-xorg-video-i810 driver, the i810 driver, is being obsoleted for the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver in Gutsy the latest development release of Ubuntu. It would be helpful if you could download the Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 4, from http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ , and test it on your particular hardware to see if it is an issue with the latest version of the intel driver. Thanks in advance!

Brian Murray wrote:
> It would be helpful if you could download the Gutsy
> Gibbon Tribe 4, from http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ , and test it on
> your particular hardware to see if it is an issue with the latest
> version of the intel driver. Thanks in advance!
>

Hello!

I will do so, but it might be a couple of weeks before I get to do it--I
am waiting for a faster Internet connection...

Thanks for your efforts!
- Philipp Kohlbecher

I am still seeing this bug under gutsy tribe 5.

Also, I have recently noticed that what is shown on the screen is not exactly *random* garbage. There is usually a resemblance between the colors in this strip at the bottom of the screen and what I had previously viewed on my screen. Recently, a part of a Thunderbird window that I had had on the screen showed up as the rightmost part of this strip after I logged out. (Thus, the "random" garbage seems to come from some sort of buffer, I guess.) This is somewhat troubling as someone (possibly with a lot of luck) might be able to see parts of what I had on my screen without my permission.

I'd seen something like this as well on my Dell 945GM laptop, but am not seeing it currently when booting.
Please test against a version of Ubuntu newer than tribe5. If it still occurs we can report it upstream.

Btw, this is going to either be against package gdm or xserver-xorg-video-intel, not xorg.

I have something very similar, I've only noticed it recently as a line in the bottom left status bar area of any application with kernel 2.6.22-13, and as the (near) bottom 100 pixels with kernel 2.6.22-14, running at 1280x1024
I have been running Gutsy since Tribe 5, have run dist-upgrade etc (so not really clean install of Gutsy) , only noticed it recently.
I am using the Intel - experimental mode setting driver (as auto detected on install)
lspci tells me this about my system:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
...

Thanks,
Jurjen

The latest ubuntu gutsy updates on 15 october 2007 (xserver-xorg-video-intel
2:2.1.1-0ubuntu8) seemed to have fixed the problems.
Thanks,

Jurjen

On 10/16/07, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: Brian Murray (brian-murray) => (unassigned)
> Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
>
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> [feisty] brief glitch at the bottom of the screen after gdm starts with
> i915 graphics card
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130429
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@Philipp Kohlbecher
Could you please recheck it with latest Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 or the Live CD?

The glitch has gone away with the latest updates, but I will download a new
image and try it on the live cd to see if any trace is there.
Will keep you posted, thanks,

Jurjen

On 10/23/07, unggnu <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> @Philipp Kohlbecher
> Could you please recheck it with latest Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 or the
> Live CD?
>
> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: xorg => xserver-xorg-video-intel
>
> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
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> [feisty] brief glitch at the bottom of the screen after gdm starts with
> i915 graphics card
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130429
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> of the bug.
>

Closing this bug because the issue seems to be fixed. Feel free to open it again if problem still appears.