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[Isaac <isaacbwhite@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I don't know of anything I am doing to trigger this problem. My screen
will randomly go black for about 2 seconds and then come back on with
horizontal lines over everything. Sometimes I can see my work in the
background but it's all scrambled. The mouse pointer stays on top and I
can click on things in the background but the buttons I try to click on
are mixed together, overlapping each other  or stretched across the
screen so I can't tell which button I am clicking. If I use keyboard
short cuts such as Alt-Tab to change what is on the screen, the
distortion will usually partially clear up. After switching between
programs about two or three times, all that is left is a couple of lines
at the top of the screen which eventually disappear. The first time this
happened to me, I had booted from a flashdrive but after installing
Ubuntu  to my harddrive, it's still happening. I am usually using
firefox at the time it happens but I have seen it happen to my desktop
with nothing running. I see it happen randomly about once/hr. I have
noticed that all the buttons and links on the screen become unresponsive
a few seconds before it turns off

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+7ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-22.27-generic 4.2.6
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-22-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:
 
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jan  3 22:58:39 2016
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: wily
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2772] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01ad]
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01ad]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-20 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release i386 (20151021)
MachineType: Dell Inc. OptiPlex GX620
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-22-generic root=UUID=2bb3e719-13a5-4f24-bb37-f9ec82357bd5 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UdevLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/udev'
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 03/31/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A07
dmi.board.name: 0FH884
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA07:bd03/31/2006:svnDellInc.:pnOptiPlexGX620:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0FH884:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: OptiPlex GX620
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+15.10.20151015-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.64-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.0.2-1ubuntu4
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.0.2-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu9.1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.9.2-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.5.0+git20150819-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20150808-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.11-1ubuntu3
xserver.bootTime: Mon Jan  4 01:45:46 2016
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.devices:
 input        Power Button         KEYBOARD, id 6
 input        Power Button         KEYBOARD, id 7
 input        Dell Dell USB Mouse  MOUSE, id 8
 input        Dell Dell USB Keyboard KEYBOARD, id 9
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id                                5264 
 vendor                                     SNY
xserver.version: 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu9.1

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug compiz-0.9 corruption i386 ubuntu wily

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Title:
  Random screen corruption

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I don't know of anything I am doing to trigger this problem. My screen
  will randomly go black for about 2 seconds and then come back on with
  horizontal lines over everything. Sometimes I can see my work in the
  background but it's all scrambled. The mouse pointer stays on top and
  I can click on things in the background but the buttons I try to click
  on are mixed together, overlapping each other  or stretched across the
  screen so I can't tell which button I am clicking. If I use keyboard
  short cuts such as Alt-Tab to change what is on the screen, the
  distortion will usually partially clear up. After switching between
  programs about two or three times, all that is left is a couple of
  lines at the top of the screen which eventually disappear. The first
  time this happened to me, I had booted from a flashdrive but after
  installing Ubuntu  to my harddrive, it's still happening. I am usually
  using firefox at the time it happens but I have seen it happen to my
  desktop with nothing running. I see it happen randomly about once/hr.
  I have noticed that all the buttons and links on the screen become
  unresponsive a few seconds before it turns off

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+7ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-22.27-generic 4.2.6
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-22-generic i686
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: i386
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CompositorRunning: compiz
  CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
  CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Jan  3 22:58:39 2016
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: wily
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
  GraphicsCard:
   Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2772] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01ad]
     Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01ad]
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-20 (14 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release i386 (20151021)
  MachineType: Dell Inc. OptiPlex GX620
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-22-generic root=UUID=2bb3e719-13a5-4f24-bb37-f9ec82357bd5 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Symptom: display
  UdevLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/udev'
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 03/31/2006
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A07
  dmi.board.name: 0FH884
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA07:bd03/31/2006:svnDellInc.:pnOptiPlexGX620:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0FH884:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: OptiPlex GX620
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+15.10.20151015-0ubuntu1
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.64-1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.0.2-1ubuntu4
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.0.2-1ubuntu4
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu9.1
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.9.2-1ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.5.0+git20150819-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20150808-0ubuntu4
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.11-1ubuntu3
  xserver.bootTime: Mon Jan  4 01:45:46 2016
  xserver.configfile: default
  xserver.devices:
   input        Power Button         KEYBOARD, id 6
   input        Power Button         KEYBOARD, id 7
   input        Dell Dell USB Mouse  MOUSE, id 8
   input        Dell Dell USB Keyboard KEYBOARD, id 9
  xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
  xserver.outputs:
   product id                                5264 
   vendor                                     SNY
  xserver.version: 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu9.1

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