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xserver-xorg-video-nv package

11.04 My display goes white either completely or a secondary window

Asked by Richard Hayes on 2011-06-14

If I open a number of windows on the GUI I get to a point where a secondary form (such as a Save As form) goes completely white. The fields are obviously active because you can see the mouse pointer changing as it passes over invisible fields.

To get around the problem, I close the relevant form and a couple of other programs and then try again. The problem is thus solved.

This has also happened occasionally when I attempt to open another application. However this is more disastrous and in this case I need to shut Linux down using the power button.

Reading elsewhere about displays going blank I have seen requests for lshw -C display
I did this and got this result:

*-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: C61 [GeForce 6100 nForce 400]
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: d
       bus info: pci@0000:00:0d.0
       version: a2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:22 memory:f2000000-f2ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f3000000-f3ffffff memory:60000000-6001ffff

Question information

Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu xserver-xorg-video-nv Edit question

Assignee:: No assignee Edit question

Solved by:: Richard Hayes

Solved:: 2011-06-19

Last query:: 2011-06-19

Last reply:: 2011-06-14

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