garbled display

[Bynw]

From time to time. Generally when switching users or going from something running full screen and then off of full screen. The display of the desktop is garbled. Images, icons, letters. Everything, even the menus.

I am running Ubuntu 11.04 in Classic mode.

I have attached a screenshot and any help to diagnose this and fix it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Krytarik]

It seems like an issue with the video driver, so try another one, generally spoken.

Please provide more - actually any - details in the regard if you can't fix it on your own.

Greetings.

[Bynw]

whats the quickest way of getting the info?

[madjr]

looks like the force is weak on you

[Krytarik]

looks like the force is weak on you

LOL What does this mean in that regard?

No, seriously, how about this!?:

lshw -c video

[madjr]

check the pic

[Krytarik]

check the pic

Yeah, true. Already had forgot about this.

[mowriter]

LOL What does this mean in that regard?

No, seriously, how about this!?:

lshw -c video

I have exactly this same problem, now in Ubuntu 12.04, also running an older Dell (Dimension E310)

Running the lshw -c video command resulted in the following:

WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 04
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:dff80000-dfffffff ioport:ecd8(size=8 ) memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:dff40000-dff7ffff
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.


Any help on this would be appreciated. I too find it frustrating. Will likely get a new video card, btw, but want to know if anything else is relevant.