Re: Randomly smirched characters
Tried your method and got this much at least.
Code:
ventrical@ventrical-desktop:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i uxa
[ 25.187] (**) intel(0): Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
ventrical@ventrical-desktop:~$
I'll keep a lookout for smirched characters.
Thanks again...:)
Edit:
So far, so good. However .. there appears to be another bug unrelated. Upon magnifiying the characters on the web pages with Ctrl+LShift+ (+or-) the links will not zone into the mouse hover meaning to say that when you hover over a magnified link the mouse icon will not morph to the handy dandy finger pointer :) lol ... Unlrelated bug methinks.. and this goes for SNA and the UXA modes.
Re: Randomly smirched characters
Nope ! They are still there. :( lol
Re: Randomly smirched characters
Quote:
Originally Posted by
ventrical
@VinDSL
Honestly .. I had no idea they put that in there by default.!! I remember using the ppa on Quantal testing but I thought it was optional and not set as default.
I guess *they* think we're all running Sandy Bridge systems. LoL! :D
SNA = Sandybridge's New Acceleration
UXA = Unified Acceleration Architecture
Re: Randomly smirched characters
Quote:
Originally Posted by
ventrical
Nope ! They are still there. :( lol
Well, here's something else you might try...
I enabled SNA acceleration again, this morning, but disabled 3D acceleration:
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
Option "DRI" "False"
EndSection
Code:
vindsl@Lothgar ~ $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i sna
[ 25.457] (II) intel(0): SNA compiled: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.6-0ubuntu4.3 (Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@ubuntu.com>)
[ 25.478] (**) intel(0): Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
[ 26.131] (II) intel(0): SNA initialized with Broadwater/Crestline backend
vindsl@Lothgar ~ $
Haven't noticed any smirched characters yet, on this machine -- * fingers crossed *.
Re: Randomly smirched characters
Quote:
Originally Posted by
VinDSL
I guess *they* think we're all running Sandy Bridge systems. LoL! :D
SNA = Sandybridge's New Acceleration
UXA = Unified Acceleration Architecture
No wonder I don't get smudges and smirches on my SandyBridge set. I thought SNA stood for SuperNanoAccelerator or SimpleNoobAddons err whatever ! :) lol
jk.. :)
Thanks a million Vin.
Re: Randomly smirched characters
Typo methinks amigo :)
"
$ echo -e 'Section "Device"\n Identifier "Card0"\n Driver "Intel"\n Option
"AccelMethod" "uxa"\nEndSection' | sudo tee /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf"
Should not \nEndSection' be \n EndSection' ?
:)
or does it matter.
Re: Randomly smirched characters
Bwahahaha!
That's one of the perils of coding on a 14" laptop. LoL! :D
You wouldn't believe how many mistakes I need correct in forums, et cetera.
Anyway, that was a copy n' paste from my bash history -- it created the file correctly on this machine, regardless of the misspelling...
EDIT
On second thought, I *think* that wasn't a misspelling.
If you look at the output, I first and last lines of the script were flush with the margin -- the other lines are supposed to be indented by one space. Heh!
Re: Randomly smirched characters
Looks like smudged characters have been fixed with new kernel.
Code:
ventrical@ventrical-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux ventrical-desktop 3.13.0-1-generic #16-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 7 19:47:28 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
ventrical@ventrical-desktop:~$
Re: Randomly smirched characters
This PC has been up and running for about 24 hours and no smudged characters with new kernel so I will mark this thread as solved.
Regards..
Re: Randomly smirched characters
Strange.... I just upgraded the GRub bootloader ONLY from proposed-repo and now I have my 'smirched' characters back. :) lol