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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Bruntlett, please provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

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Title:
  Intermittent graphics corruption

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Every so often the screen would be corrupted with horizontal lines of
  junk.

  WORKAROUND: Add to /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX nomodeset:
  sudo update-grub
  reboot

  Now the system will only allow VGA 640x480 graphics.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+7ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-17.21-generic 4.2.3
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: LXDE
  Date: Sat Nov  7 18:44:01 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-07 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  SourcePackage: xorg
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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