[Bug 561011] Re: Garbled display - Compaq Presario SR1610NX

[Dean Kinard]

1.  I think Firefox is the only application where I have seen this problem.
However, I always run
     Firefox maximized, so I'm not sure if I would have noticed the problem
somewhere else on
     the desktop.
2.  The next time this occurs I will capture a screenshot and possibly a
digital picture if the
     screenshot does not show the problem.  When I say the screen is
garbled, I see horizontal
     lines on portions of the screen (almost like a sync problem), and some
messed up characters
     (almost like a video memory problem).  However, I multi-boot this
system with Ubuntu 9.10 and
     Windows XP and have not seen the problem in the other 2 systems.  I
must say, however, that
     I mostly am running Ubuntu 10.04.
3.  There does not appear to be any pattern to when this occurs.  It appears
to happen randomly
    while browsing.  A page refresh may clear up portions of the display but
not completely completely
    correct the display.  The desktop looks normal after exiting Firefox.

Update:  I was able to capture an occurrence and have attached a screen
save.  Highly intermittent.
I finally was able to recreate by opening all links in one of my bookmark
folders and then looking
through the tabs until I saw a corrupted display.

Dean Kinard

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Draycen DeCator
<ddecator at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Could you please answer a few
> questions for us?
>
> 1. Is Firefox the only application showing this behavior?
> 2. Could you provide us with a screenshot of the issue?
> 3. Are there any specific steps that can consistently reproduce this bug,
> or does it happen randomly?
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Garbled display - Compaq Presario  SR1610NX
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/561011
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> Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox
>
> The display for FireFox has been garbled for about the last week.  I have
> been updating 10.04 Beta daily and only started seeing this problem about a
> week ago (sorry, I don't remember the exact day).  My guess is that is may
> be caused by one of the video driver updates.  This computer uses and
> embedded ATI Radeon XPress 200 chipset and shares memory with the computer.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Apr 11 15:27:15 2010
> FirefoxPackages:
>  firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
>  firefox-gnome-support 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
>  firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
>  abroswer N/A
>  abrowser-branding N/A
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
> ProcEnviron:
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=en_US.utf8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: firefox
>
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