Re: nasty display bugs

2014-11-07 Thread David Harrison
Hi Walter, No results from that command. I had to grep lspci for 'kernel in use' instead, which indicated the i915 driver. I checked the version in Synaptic and I think it's the latest stock version from the Ubuntu repos. Where I differ from the OP's situation on my Toughbook is having neither tw

nasty display bugs

2014-11-06 Thread flaneurb
Mine is a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop, Intel Core2Duo from 2009. I've upgraded the package in question without any display problems: apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-intel: Installed: 2:2.99.914-1~exp1ubuntu4 Candidate: 2:2.99.914-1~exp1ubuntu4 Version table: *** 2:2.99.

Re: nasty display bugs

2014-11-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Nov 6, 2014 5:01 PM, "David Harrison" wrote: > My old Panasonic Toughbook uses 'old Intel' graphics and survived the transition to 14.10 without obvious hitches. > I can't remember offhand whether the driver was 'stock' or installed via the Intel utility. What's the best way to check via cli?

Re: nasty display bugs

2014-11-06 Thread David Harrison
nut) >5. Re: Lubuntu ISO prototype, build with LXQt, available for > testing (Aere Greenway) >6. Re: Lubuntu ISO prototype, build with LXQt, available for > testing (Ian Bruntlett) >7. nasty display bugs (Walter Lapchynski) > > > ---

Re: nasty display bugs

2014-11-06 Thread Aere Greenway
On 11/06/2014 11:28 AM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: Ian's bug is apparently i810? On 14.10, no kernel module being used. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385920 Aere's bug is i915 I think. On 14.04, with i915 kernel module, I think. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389904 My guess is these are dif

nasty display bugs

2014-11-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Ian's bug is apparently i810? On 14.10, no kernel module being used. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385920 Aere's bug is i915 I think. On 14.04, with i915 kernel module, I think. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389904 My guess is these are different. They do have the same results apparently. W