Thanks for this advice.
A little early to tell as I never could generate the error.
But I did have a common symptom that being a drop down list in a browser
would yield a black square instead of the list then my window manger
would not react to mouse clicks or keyboard input.
I did the BIOS update you recommended.
I just had a black square on a drop down but my window manager is still
working properly.
By the way for us novices the documentation regarding BIOS updates is a
lot of words that do not lend much clarity to what you are suppose to
do. I suppose somewhere in the Asus manual it says something like the
recipe below but I never found it.
You might add a recipe like this:
0. Read documentation then -
1. Down load the latest BIOS version.
2. Unzip the download.
3. Copy the BIOS file to a usb Flashdrive.
4. Shutdown your computer.
5. Power up your computer.
6. Press F2 when the Asus logo appears.
7. Select Advanced in the Asus BIOS screen.
8. Select EasyFlash
9. Select your USB Flashdrive
10. Press the Yes buttons to update BIOS
On 10/02/2015 10:52 PM, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
> Karl Johnson, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu
> better. As per http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z97AR/HelpDesk_Download/
> an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available
> (2501). If you update to this following
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything?
>
> If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the
> output of the following terminal command:
> sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
>
> For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
> .
>
> Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
> posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't
> have to create a new bug report.
>
> Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible, and the
> information above is provided, then please mark this report Status New.
> Otherwise, please mark this as Invalid.
>
> Thank you for your understanding.
>
> ** Tags added: bios-outdated-2501
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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