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[Joshua Orvis <jorvis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

This is a completely new build of 13.04 and after package updates the
nouveau driver caused the screen to be a checkerboard of white and black
squares after each reboot.  Instead I installed the nvidia-current
drivers and Xorg displayed great, but now the screen often just goes
black while working.

This is happening when I had openSUSE installed as well as my current
Ubuntu 13.04.  This laptop is 3 years old and it has worked wonderfully
until now.  It's a Dell Precision M6500 and at first I thought it was a
hardware issue, and Dell has replaced the motherboard, daughterboard,
video card and hard drive, but the same issue is happening.

It has taken at least 10 reboots just to get far enough to file this
bug.

The video card info: 
$ lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92GLM [Quadro FX 2800M] (rev a2)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: nvidia-settings 304.51-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-27.40-generic 3.8.13.4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug  1 09:07:40 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-29 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nvidia-settings
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: nvidia-settings (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug raring third-party-packages

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1207378

Title:
  Screen intermittently goes black

Status in “nvidia-settings” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is a completely new build of 13.04 and after package updates the
  nouveau driver caused the screen to be a checkerboard of white and
  black squares after each reboot.  Instead I installed the nvidia-
  current drivers and Xorg displayed great, but now the screen often
  just goes black while working.

  This is happening when I had openSUSE installed as well as my current
  Ubuntu 13.04.  This laptop is 3 years old and it has worked
  wonderfully until now.  It's a Dell Precision M6500 and at first I
  thought it was a hardware issue, and Dell has replaced the
  motherboard, daughterboard, video card and hard drive, but the same
  issue is happening.

  It has taken at least 10 reboots just to get far enough to file this
  bug.

  The video card info: 
  $ lspci | grep -i nvidia
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92GLM [Quadro FX 2800M] (rev a2)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: nvidia-settings 304.51-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-27.40-generic 3.8.13.4
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-27-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Aug  1 09:07:40 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-29 (2 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: nvidia-settings
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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