<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 3:15 AM, thufir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hawat.thufir@gmail.com" target="_blank">hawat.thufir@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
I just dusted off an old pc and monitor, clean installed, and get this:<br>
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should be"additional disk space wil be used".<br>
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totally screwy.<br>
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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?<br>
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my fonts.conf:<br>
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<br></blockquote><div>... </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">thufir@mordor:~$ lspci<br>...</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's probably NOT your fonts. It's probably a bug in the video driver, as Oliver Grawert pointed out.</div><div><br></div><div>Try a Google search for "Ubuntu Intel 82915G/GV/910GL" and you will see other complaints.</div><div><br></div><div>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.)</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div></div></div></div>