Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-29 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 27 November 2015 at 18:10, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bruntlett, the issue you are reporting is an upstream one. Could you > please report this problem following the instructions verbatim at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/k

Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-26 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 26 November 2015 at 02:04, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bruntlett, to clarify > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1514102/comments/37 > , was this tested to work without nomodeset? > Yes. In VGA mode (nomodeset pres

Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-25 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 25 November 2015 at 18:10, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > IDEA: Will try running system with Firefox set _not_ to use graphical > hardware acceleration. > Tried that. No luck - bug still present. BA, Ian -- -- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - http://www.accu.org -- My writ

Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-25 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 24 November 2015 at 11:11, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > There is one now available for 4.4-rc2. >> > Will get onto that when I have time. > OK. Short story: bug still present. Long story: These kernel files were downloaded and installed... http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mai

Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-24 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 24 November 2015 at 02:22, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bruntlett: > >"1. Even with that kernel, graphics problems are still present." > > Which kernel version specifically? > This one:- linux-headers-4.3.0-997-generic_4.3.0-997.20151

Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-23 Thread Ian Bruntlett
On 23 November 2015 at 13:40, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > Hi Christopher, > > Good news! An Intel graphics specific kernel arrived and I installed it. > So far, the graphics are working fine. However, I must point out that more > testing is required. > 1. Even with that kernel, graphics problems are

Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-23 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, Good news! An Intel graphics specific kernel arrived and I installed it. So far, the graphics are working fine. However, I must point out that more testing is required. Here are the details of the files involved etc:- linux-headers-4.3.0-997-generic_4.3.0-997.201511202100_amd64.d

Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-19 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, Spent a lot of today learning how to edit files using vim. On 17 November 2015 at 03:08, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bruntlett, could you please test the latest mainline kernel > (4.4-rc1) and advise to the results of both using and no

Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-16 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Squeezed in a bit more work today... 1. Tried kernel 4.3.0 today (the one you recommended me a few e-mails ago) with the "nomodeset" parameter and the graphics system went into 640x480 mode, couldn't change it from the desktop. However, the graphics _worked_ :) 2. Viewing menus in GRUB. Did this

Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-16 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 15 November 2015 at 22:52, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bruntlett, could you please undo your WORKAROUND, test drm-intel- > nightly and advise to the results? > Apologies - the results I gave you were for without the workaround. Does

Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-15 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 13 November 2015 at 00:56, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > While you are welcome to do that as a test (as the release and > architecture are supported downstream via the L/Ubuntu Community), it > wouldn't be recommended to use a i386 archite

Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-12 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 12 November 2015 at 12:27, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bruntlett, please provide the output of the following terminal command: > sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date > *Here is what you asked for...

Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-11 Thread Ian Bruntlett
On 11 November 2015 at 19:36, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > To test this PC I reinstalled lubuntu 15.10 64-bit and used Synaptic > Package manager to install a few bits and pieces. > > The PC is behaving much better now and graphics are OK. > PC graphics are still misbehaving. One day I will know enoug

Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-11 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi, To test this PC I reinstalled lubuntu 15.10 64-bit and used Synaptic Package manager to install a few bits and pieces. The PC is behaving much better now and graphics are OK. Just in time to be given away to a friend who's PC's hard drives has failed :) BW, Ian -- -- ACCU - Professional

Re: [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-09 Thread Ian Bruntlett
I'm a little busy at the moment but I've made time for this experiment. On 8 November 2015 at 21:58, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bruntlett, as per > > http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=499679&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=1093 > an u