Public bug reported:
I upgraded from Lucid to Precise and experienced display corruption.
Text and widgets were displaying inconsistently on the screen, and
tended to disappear or re-appear as I moved the mouse over them, making
it nearly impossible to login with either ligthdm or gdm. More
importantly, the desktop environment was unusable. In Lucid I was using
the Ubuntu-packaged proprietary Nvidia drivers. I'm using an HP
EliteBook 8540p with the Nvidia NVS 5100M chip and was using nvidia-
common 1:0.2.44 and nvidia-current 295.40-0ubuntu1. I tried nvidia-
current-updates and nvidia-current from ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates with
no success.
I disabled X and uninstalled nvidia-common/nvidia-current and began
hand-installing previous versions from the NVIDIA site. The most recent
version that worked is 290.10. The 295.xx versions showed the same
artifacts (295.20 and 295.49).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nvidia-common 1:0.2.44 [modified: usr/bin/hybrid-detect
usr/share/nvidia-common/last_gfx_boot]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.38-generic-pae 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 7451bb2c84d577f3248044893e3259ad
CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
Date: Thu May 24 00:08:32 2012
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
SourcePackage: nvidia-common
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-20 (3 days ago)
** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 precise
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1003767
Title:
NVIDIA driver version 295.53 incompatible with NVS 5100M chip
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