[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 753144] Re: focused, or maximized windows blank

2011-07-14 Thread André Barmasse
Same problem here since weeks on my (rather old) Vaio with 1GB RAM and a Nvidia GeForce 6200 with 128 MB RAM. But white windows only appear, when logging into the unity session; the unity-2D session works flawalessly. This happened with the old Nvidia drivers and happens with the new Nvidia driver

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 762478] Re: [nouveau] No icons shown in unity launcher

2011-07-04 Thread André Barmasse
Still no improvemt with the black launcher on my machine with Natty Narwhal and a Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 card. The panel is still black, yet transparent with an application running under it. The programs are clickable and popups are showing up (see image). I have now unity 3.8.16 installed and the

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 494166] Re: [lucid] nvidia-glx can't work with new xorg 7.5

2009-12-21 Thread André Barmasse
Same issue here on my Sony Vaio with a GeForce Go 6200/6400. Harry's workaround solves the problem temporarily. A small downside is that you have to repeat his installation procedure every time a new kernel is installed. On the other hand, the new nvidia beta driver 195 is way better than the olde

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 494627] Re: nv driver crashing with segmentation fault in libpthread.so.0

2009-12-20 Thread André Barmasse
Hi Seth Thanks for the hint. You are of course right, so I will take a look there. By the way: after yesterday's xserver update gdm seems to work again, and startup correctly with the nvidia driver. Let's hope it does again after today's kernel update ... -- nv driver crashing with segmentation

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 494627] Re: nv driver crashing with segmentation fault in libpthread.so.0

2009-12-18 Thread André Barmasse
I am not sure if this is exactly related to your problems, but maybe it can help other people to get the nvidia driver working with Lucid Lynx Alpha 1, although I am sure that the X.org/Nvidia problem will be solved with one of the next alpha versions. I have just upgraded to Lucid Lynx Alpha 1. W