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[Karl Johnson <1500411@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this advice.
A little early to tell as I never could generate the error.
But I did have a common symptom that being a drop down list in a browser 
would yield a black square instead of the list then my window manger 
would not react to mouse clicks or keyboard input.

I did the BIOS update you recommended.

I just had a black square on a drop down but my window manager is still 
working properly.

By the way for us novices the documentation regarding BIOS updates is a 
lot of words that do not lend much clarity to what you are suppose to 
do.  I suppose somewhere in the Asus manual it says something like the 
recipe below but I never found it.

You might add a recipe like this:
      0. Read documentation then -
      1. Down load the latest BIOS version.
      2. Unzip the download.
      3. Copy the BIOS file to a usb Flashdrive.
      4. Shutdown your computer.
      5. Power up your computer.
      6. Press F2 when the Asus logo appears.
      7. Select Advanced in the Asus BIOS screen.
      8. Select EasyFlash
      9. Select your USB Flashdrive
     10. Press the Yes buttons to update BIOS

On 10/02/2015 10:52 PM, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
> Karl Johnson, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu
> better. As per http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z97AR/HelpDesk_Download/
> an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available
> (2501). If you update to this following
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything?
>
> If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
> sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
>
> For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
> .
>
> Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
> posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't
> have to create a new bug report.
>
> Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible, and the
> information above is provided, then please mark this report Status New.
> Otherwise, please mark this as Invalid.
>
> Thank you for your understanding.
>
> ** Tags added: bios-outdated-2501
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
>     Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
>         Status: New => Incomplete
>

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Title:
  Xorg freeze

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  running browser against local server and data base.  That is running
  browser, apache and sql on the same machine.

  Did do an update a few days back and another after the freeze just in
  case already found and fixed.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-63.103-generic 3.13.11-ckt25
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-63-generic i686
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.15
  Architecture: i386
  CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
  CompositorRunning: compiz
  CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
  CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon Sep 28 05:00:33 2015
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: trusty
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: No
  GpuHangFrequency: Several times a day
  GpuHangReproducibility: Seems to happen randomly
  GpuHangStarted: Within the last few days
  GraphicsCard:
   NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [GeForce GT 610] [10de:104a] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8411]
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-03 (389 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140417)
  MachineType: ASUS All Series
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-63-generic root=UUID=614540d3-24cf-4ba7-9ff5-20b5269b8842 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Symptom: display
  Title: Xorg freeze
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 04/23/2014
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 0702
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: Z97-AR
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
  dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0702:bd04/23/2014:svnASUS:pnAllSeries:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnZ97-AR:rvrRev1.xx:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
  dmi.product.name: All Series
  dmi.product.version: System Version
  dmi.sys.vendor: ASUS
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11.3+14.04.20150313-0ubuntu1
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.60-2~ubuntu14.04.1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.4
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.4
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1.6
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
  xserver.bootTime: Mon Sep 28 04:55:06 2015
  xserver.configfile: default
  xserver.errors:
   Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
   Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
  xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
  xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7
  xserver.video_driver: nouveau

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