Garbage left on screen in 14.04

[c. marlow]

On 05/31/2014 11:27 PM, Israel wrote:
> On 05/31/2014 11:56 AM, c. marlow wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello Israel!
>>
>> christopher at COMPAQ:~$ lspci | grep VGA
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce
>> GT 640] (rev a1)
>> christopher at COMPAQ:~$
>>
>> Yes, I have the nvidia drivers installed.
>>
>> I think I have xcomp installed, I was trying to get DOCKY to work but
>> it kept leaving this black shadow on the screen
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks! and here is the desktop if you want it! I got it from VANILLA
>> DEBIAN back when I used plain debian Wheezy.
>>
>> http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac69/CMAR606/LUBUNTU/opole-sky.jpg
>>
>>
>> Christopher
>>
> Hi,
> I was wondering if this was an Nvidia issue....  I sometimes have really
> odd Nvidia issues on one machine.  And one of those issues is similar to
> the one you described.
> I had NO issues with the nouveau drivers, except that in 14.04 I cannot
> resume from suspend, so I had to move to these awful proprietary
> drivers, as I need suspend to work.
>
> I would suggest trying out the nouveau drivers (if you can)  and see if
> you can reproduce the bug.  If you cannot then it is a bug in Nvidia,
> and that will probably not get fixed, unless they open source their
> drivers... but that is unlikely... though intel recently open sourced
> some drivers, and Nvidia has been showing GNU/Linux some love lately
> with Steam drawing a lot of attention to us.
> If the bug is still present we may yet still track it down!


HELLO!

oh, no, I havent tried the nouveau drivers. I instally always install 
the nvidia drivers for the graphics card. I will have to switch it back 
and see if that problem goes away and report back.

-- Christopher


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