[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2015-03-03 Thread Tom Winterhalder
I'm using the nvidia driver which is included in the 15.04 version: 340.76-0ubuntu1 ii nvidia-340 340.76-0ubuntu1 amd64NVIDIA binary driver - version 340.76 ii nvidia-340-uvm 340.7

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2015-03-03 Thread Mike Loebl
Any hope that the bugs fixed in this thread may be related: http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/2xowuc/looks_like_the_very_long_standing_nvidia_bug/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/13

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2015-03-02 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Tom Winterhalder, could you please advise which driver and version specifically are you testing in Vivid? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Title: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 an

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2015-03-02 Thread Tom Winterhalder
Finally I could not wait and installed the new version of Ubuntu today. Even installing all the updates did not change anything. The flickering is still there and none of the described workarounds are working. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2015-02-26 Thread Dan Kegel
fwiw: I hit this using the latest from Nvidia's download site, and also using the xorg-edgers ppa ( 346.47-0ubuntu1-xedgers14.04.1 ). The flipping in the terminal seems to be at the same speed as the cursor blink. I only noticed it in gnome terminal. xterm does not exhibit the problem. My system'

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2015-02-22 Thread Tom Winterhalder
I'm afraid I can't install it on my laptop for now. How do I use the nvidia driver from the live cd? By default the nouveau driver is loaded. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Titl

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2015-02-18 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Tom Winterhalder, could you please test http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily- live/current/ and advise if this is reproducible? ** Tags removed: bios-outdated-f.50 ** Tags added: latest-bios-f.50 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2015-02-18 Thread Mike Loebl
@penalvch many of us are using different hardware vendors so I don't believe this is an HP bios thing at all. I've got a GIGABYTE GA-Z77X- UP5 TH Z77 motherboard running the latest bios. My video card is a nVidia GeForce GTX 570 and I've been trying both release and beta NVIDIA binary drivers on

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2015-02-18 Thread Tom Winterhalder
I already installed the latest BIOS long time ago. dmidecode -s bios-version 68CVD Ver. F.50 dmidecode -s bios-release-date 07/08/2014 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Title:

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2015-02-18 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Tom WInterhalder, as per http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=4096176&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=4060 an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (F.50). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything? I

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2015-02-01 Thread Miguel Barrio Orsikowsky
Compiz workaround also works for me: force full screen redraws (buffer swap) on repaint [x] Ubuntu 14.04.1 fully updated nVidia driver versión 346.35 (from xorg edgers PPA) nVidia GeForce GTX 570 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2015-01-22 Thread david6
Compiz works for me: (Force full screen redraws (buffer swap) on repaint [x]) Ubuntu 14.04 fully updated Quadro K420/PCIe/SSE2 Needed to switch from Nouveau (to edgers Nvidia 340.58) to resolved DisplayPort not handling screen saver / blanking, and poor performance (or X server crash) with DVI (Du

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-11-18 Thread Olli Niemi
Some status update: I enabled "Don't wait for video sync" and "Force full screen redraws" from compizconfig. I've not yet experienced the flickering problem. Before the compizconfig modification the problem was severe in gnome image viewer, right after rebooting. I have never seen problems as seve

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-11-18 Thread Olli Niemi
This happens also for me. Ubuntu 14.10 Geforce GTX 750 and xorg edgers nvidia-346. But so far I've seen it only in Image Viewer and in gnome Terminal. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-11-09 Thread Juan Simón
Nvidia GeForce GT220 Driver Version: 340.58 (downloaded from Nvidia page and compiled directly with kernel 3.17.2, no DKMS) Ubuntu 14.04 64 bits I have to set "Performance Level" to "Prefer Maximum Performance" to decrease greatly this problem. Although it still fails in a very few occasions. Th

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-10-28 Thread karoshi
Compiz works for me: Ubuntu 14.04 with updated Nvidia GeForce GTX 560/PCIe/SSE2 $ nvidia-smi Wed Oct 29 09:09:59 2014 +--+ | NVIDIA-SMI 340.29 Driver Version: 340.29 | |---

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-10-28 Thread Tom Winterhalder
Still no success. Freshly installed Ubuntu 14.10 with Nvidia driver 331.89-0ubuntu5. CCSM workaround mentioned above in this thresd still does not solve the issue. The system is completely useless with this flickering. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-10-20 Thread johntosh
An "edit" to my previous comment. This problem does not appear when running 331.38 (for me). I've rolled back the driver. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Title: Flickering with

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-10-20 Thread johntosh
My 14.04 system also suffers from a variation of this problem. FWIW, I find that the "flicker problem" is tied to the PERFORMANCE LEVEL of my GTX 275. If I watch the GPU from the PowerMizer panel of the "NVIDIA X Server Settings" application, the "flicker problem" appears when the Performance Level

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-10-04 Thread nicolas_dh
Your Workaround: ccsm Utility->Workaround->"Force full screen redraws (buffer swap) on repaint" [x] stopped "flickering" also for me: with NVIDIA's 343.22 (Latest Short Lived Branch version) on Ubuntu 14.04 amd64 with GeForce GTX 550 Ti -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-09-29 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Title: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared To manage notifica

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-09-22 Thread zorbish
The workaround of changing the settings "Force full screen redraws (buffer swap) on repaint" through CCSM, seems to help resolve the issue for me. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 with NVIDIA 340.32. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscri

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-09-20 Thread Gintautas Miliauskas
Actually, scratch that, the two options did not help at all. The flickering is terrible as before. I restarted the machine to make sure. When I have two Chrome browser windows open, one works fine, but the other flickers like crazy when switching tabs. I am using xmonad as my window manager, that

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-09-20 Thread Gintautas Miliauskas
I also ran into this issue after upgrading to Trusty (nvidia driver 331.38). Checking "Force full screen redraws" and "Force synchronization between X and GLX" seems to have helped. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-09-14 Thread Graham Walter
Just installed Ubuntu 14.04 and installed Nvidia driver 340.24 and the flicker was there especially on firefox. Managed get rid of it by unchecking "Allow Flipping" under OpenGL in Nvidia settings. However when switching tabs, parts of the page will not display properly until I scroll. Will try dow

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-09-10 Thread Thomas Carlisle
I just loaded Ubuntu 14.04LTS 64-bit on a Dell D630 with an integrated Nvidia Quadro NVS 135m display adapter, removed nouveau completely and installed 340.32 from the Nvidia site (not the edgers PPA), andthe flicker was present. A common suggestion is to disable dithering in nvidia-settings, which

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-08-27 Thread Tom Winterhalder
Still for me there is no workaround. Even if the above mentioned workaround seems to be working for some it does not for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Title: Flickering w

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-08-23 Thread Dave Einerson
Turning on "Force full screen redraws (buffer swap) on repaint" resolved the flickering - yay! I attached a screen shot of the setting. ** Attachment added: "workaround setting for flickering" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1314367/+attachment/4185320/+files/CompizConfigSe

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-08-18 Thread Thiru
Just another confirmation. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.1 with nvidia driver 340.32 and it's still and issue unless the Compiz workaround above is applied. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/13

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-08-17 Thread Miguel Ángel Molina
Still not fixed in nvidia driver 340.32. This issue doesn't occur with nouveau driver in 14.04.1 neither with nvidia driver and ubuntu 12.04.4 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Ti

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Winterhalder
Still no luck. All workarounds don't help in my case. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Title: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared To manage notifications ab

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-08-12 Thread Cade Lambert
Also using 340.24 and Ubuntu 14.04.1. The workaround Miguel mentioned above, checking the "Force full screen redraws (buffer swap) on repaint" option in Compiz, resolved the flickering issue for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribe

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-08-12 Thread Miguel Ángel Molina
The bug is not fixed in 340.24. With 14.04.1 desktop 64b and this nvidia driver version the issue is still there. I checked the "Force full screen redraws (buffer swap) on repaint" option in compiz and this works for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bu

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-08-09 Thread Ashley Whetter
This was a bug in the nvidia driver: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/751552/any-opengl-window-shown-on-all-workspaces-occludes-other-applications/ It should be fixed in 340.24. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-07-23 Thread Tom Winterhalder
Also this workaround does not solve the issue for me. I hope there will be a solution soon. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Title: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-07-20 Thread Mark Mandel
I just installed nvidia 340.24 (and several other updates) through ppa :xorg-edgers/ppa, and so far, no problems for the past hour. Hoping this will end up being a valid workaround, as this update was driving me crazy. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-06-30 Thread Dalibor Dukic
Chrome heavily flickers on Ubuntu 14.04 with Awesome VM and 340.17 nvidia. For me CCSM workaround does not help at all. ;( Is there any other workaround to this annoying problem? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-06-23 Thread Tom Winterhalder
Thanks, but also this workaround does not help in my case. It improves the situation a little bit, but the flickering is still there. Especially when switching between multiple windows. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-06-23 Thread JW
I seem to have fixed it by going into CCSM>Workarounds>Force synchronization between X and GLX -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Title: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia ca

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-06-23 Thread JW
340.17 still flickers -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Title: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-06-22 Thread Eric Vlasov
Anything above 331.79 causes flickering for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Title: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared To manage notifications about th

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-06-04 Thread Tom Winterhalder
Unfortunately I can't confirm this workaround. In my case it just doesn't flicker directly after starting the computer. After a short moment using it the flickering reappears. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bug

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-06-03 Thread Alexander Pavel
It's a Compiz problem. I figured this out about a week after I installed 14.04 (which was a week after 14.04 was released). To fix it, you get CompizConfig Settings Manager (ccsm) and you go down to "Workarounds" in the "Utility" Category and check the box that says "Force full screen redraws (buff

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-05-27 Thread Robert Massaioli
I am pretty sure that I am being affected by this bug too so I made a screen recording of what I am seeing: http://youtu.be/p-iBqNlGhMI Symptoms include: * Flickering when I have two google chrome windows open. It flickers between the two. * Other programs showing on top of others when I chang

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-05-04 Thread Zach
I was just using what gmail was doing as an example of what it does, full-screen applications work just fine, no issues. Only normal applications are affected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-05-04 Thread Tom Winterhalder
Yes it is not updating correctly. Especially when switching between different aplications. The Gmail thin I have never noticed so far. But I'm rarely using it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-05-03 Thread Zach
The screen seems to not be updating correctly, right? I will switch back an forth between old and current views of various system programs, as well as applications like Chrome. Switching tabs seem sto cause this sometimes, and as I type this, my Gmail is popping on and off screen with every letter

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-05-03 Thread Zach
** Tags added: nvidia -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Title: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs

[Bug 1314367] Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

2014-04-30 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314367 Title: Flick