video card?

[Tommy Trussell]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 3:15 AM, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I just dusted off an  old pc and monitor, clean installed, and get this:
>
> http://pasteboard.co/19BUB93l.png
>
> should be"additional disk space wil be used".
>
> http://pasteboard.co/1aXvLg9I.png
>
> totally screwy.
>
>
> all too frequently.  I don't think it's a hardware problem, when switching
> windows or tabs, sometimes this is triggered.  It might be missing fonts?
>
> my fonts.conf:
>
> http://pastebin.com/vU48EQp7
>
> ...

> thufir at mordor:~$ lspci
> ...



> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)
>
>
It's probably NOT your fonts. It's probably a bug in the video driver, as
Oliver Grawert pointed out.

Try a Google search for "Ubuntu Intel 82915G/GV/910GL" and you will see
other complaints.

I had an old Dell system that worked great until Ubuntu 12.04 LTS added 3D
graphics to Unity. Back then I could force 2D graphics to avoid the
problems, but by the time "Trusty" 14.04 LTS came out, they removed the 2D
fallback mode for Unity. SO I went out and bought a cheapo video card
that's known to work OK, and I can continue to use that system with the
latest Ubuntu. (It was important to me to run "straight" Ubuntu to match
some other systems.)

SO you have a few options here -- I suggest finding a video card that works
with the latest Ubuntu, or you could try a "flavor" of Ubuntu (or another
distro) that doesn't rely on 3D graphics. For example you might try booting
from a Xubuntu image and see if it works OK, for example.
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