[Bug 46512] When I log in right after the system boots, there's a weird screen dirt underneath the cursor

[Daniel Robitaille]

Public bug reported:

bug initially reported using reportbug

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeff Bowden <jlb at houseofdistraction.com>
To: Ubuntu Bug Tracking System <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:58:14 -0700
Subject: linux-image-2.6.15-23-686: When I log in right after the system boots, there's a weird screen dirt underneath the cursor
Package: linux-image-2.6.15-23-686
Version: 2.6.15-23.39
Severity: normal


When I interrupt grub and manually select 2.6.15-22 kernel this problem
doesn't happen.  The "dirt" is in the form of black horizontal line about 6
times as wide as the cursor itself and 3 or 4 cursor-heights below where
the cursor appears.

After using the system for a minute it seems to go away but then it comes
back, sometimes in different colors.  Playing video through xv seems to
have some effect on it.

Hardware is a thinkpad T43 with 1G of memory.  Using the fglrx driver.

# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon Mobility M300]
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)
0000:04:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 8d)
0000:04:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
 APT prefers dapper-updates
 APT policy: (500, 'dapper-updates'), (500, 'dapper-security'), (500, 'dapper-backports'), (500, 'dapper'), (500, 'breezy-updates'), (500, 'breezy-security'), (500, 'breezy-backports'), (500, 'breezy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-23-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.15-23-686 depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]     5.93-5ubuntu4  The GNU core utilities
ii  initramfs-tools           0.40ubuntu32   tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools         3.2.2-1ubuntu7 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.15-23-686 recommends:
ii  grub                       0.97-1ubuntu9 GRand Unified Bootloader

-- debconf-show failed

** Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

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When I log in right after the system boots, there's a weird screen dirt underneath the cursor
https://launchpad.net/bugs/46512