black screen applications

not a yelp bug.

thanks for the respond..

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>
wrote:

> not a yelp bug.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Sourcepackagename: yelp => None
>
> --
> black screen applications
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244387
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: yelp
>
> I had this problem for a while.. and i have a nvidia geforce 5500 video
> card and since i stopped using kubuntu and switched to ubuntu i have been
> experiencing black screens inside the application windows. i need to resize
> the window to a small size then inside is viewable. after a reboot problem
> is gone probably for another half an hour. any help would be appreciated.
> would like to put some screen shots but i cant even see inside the screen to
> make the screen shots.
> thanks
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Mon Jun 30 15:30:47 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: yelp 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.8.04.1
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: yelp
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686
>

i am attaching a photo of the screen by a cell phone camera. Once i get the black window i cant open any new application with a black screen..any help would be appreciated.
thanks.

Hi bkayhan,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? (ISOs are available from cdimage.ubuntu.com)

If it remains an issue, could you also attach a new /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Thanks in advance.

The output of lspci -vvnn would also be worth having.

i changed the video card i had and the problem went away. So even though
that specific card worked fine in kubuntu environment but i like using
ubuntu... i had to change it to get my computer going... but i have that
card in a different machine..once the new release comes out i will try it
out..

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Bryce Harrington <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> Hi bkayhan,
>
>
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity
> in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you
> try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? (ISOs are available from
> cdimage.ubuntu.com)
>
> If it remains an issue, could you also attach a new /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> The output of lspci -vvnn would also be worth having.
>
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> black screen applications
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244387
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "xorg" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint:black screen nvidia drivers
>
> I had this problem for a while.. and i have a nvidia geforce 5500 video
> card and since i stopped using kubuntu and switched to ubuntu i have been
> experiencing black screens inside the application windows. i need to resize
> the window to a small size then inside is viewable. after a reboot problem
> is gone probably for another half an hour. any help would be appreciated.
> would like to put some screen shots but i cant even see inside the screen to
> make the screen shots.
> thanks
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Mon Jun 30 15:30:47 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: yelp 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.8.04.1
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: yelp
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686
>

Does the problem still occur with Intrepid or Jaunty?

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Installed Jaunty, but Hardware Drivers recommended 173 instead of 180. 180 is in the repository, though? Should I use it or does it have problems?

(WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 GPU installed in this system is
(WW) NVIDIA(0): supported through the NVIDIA 173.14.xx Legacy drivers.
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for
(WW) NVIDIA(0): more information. The 180.44 NVIDIA driver will ignore
(WW) NVIDIA(0): this GPU. Continuing probe...
(EE) No devices detected.

That didn't work, and now I can't get the 173 drivers to activate again.

I've posted a new version of the -nvidia driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 185.18.14 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

I downloaded, burned, and booted from xorg-edgers-0.16-i386.iso, and it still doesn't provide 180 drivers. The "Hardware Drivers" window lists 96 and 173. What exactly am I supposed to do to test this?

The latest nvidia drivers available for GeForce FX is 173. If you are experiencing the black window issue with Jaunty or Karmic, you should reopen this bug report. If you are experiencing a different issue, you should report that as a new bug. Thanks.

The black windows are still a problem in Jaunty with 173 drivers on a nVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 64M.

Reopening. Changing sourcepackage back to -173 as both reports have been with GeForce FX.

Does the problem still occur with compiz and gnome-screensaver disabled?

For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status .

The problem does not occur if Compiz is disabled (which is why I normally run with Compiz disabled). It's a matter of the video card running out of texture memory, if I understand correctly. I don't know if there's any connection to gnome-screensaver. I can try disabling that.

Disabling the screensaver has no effect, as expected.

I encountered this with a 256MB nvidia 6600GT AGP card when the 'AGP Aperture size' in the BIOS was set to a value lower than the amount of memory on the video card. After upping the value in the BIOS, the problem went away.

[Expired for nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]