part of NvIda issues?

Sorry in advance for my noobness, I have an older system with via display and sound drivers. The sound doesn't work at all and the display flashes almost every time I move the mouse. And brings up "ghost" windows that I have already closed. When I go to the menu button it comes up and disappears until I move the mouse over it EDT. If this part of the NvIda bug? What can I do to patch this?.thanks for all your hard work, what I have seen is awesome!

Hi.
First of all open terminal and give the result of

Code:

lspci

to verify the exact model of your GPU.
Have you tried going to "additional drivers" to check if there is any recommended driver available to be enabled?

You could also try the Nvidia 3rd PPA as explained in Wolfmans very useful guide here, but please first give the result of lspci to see your GPU.

Hi,

for sound:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2023

Have you updated your system fully??:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2247

Regards Wolfman

Yes, I have tried the additional drivers before going thru the terminal but it didn't list any. Then I updated and upgraded thru the terminal as described in an earlier post, and also thru synaptic. As soon as I can get home I'll copy the code and try the sound suggestions. Thanks for your replies!

here is the lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Security Device
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller (rev 80)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 5337 (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.3 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
00:13.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] (rev 01)
80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A/VT8251 HDA Controller (rev 10)

got sound working, not display. Compiz keeps closing with errors. I have all the eye candy turned off

I see that a bug-report has been filed for your problem. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/927168 SInce this is an LTS version, hopefully it would be resolved soon enough.

bknight99 wrote:got sound working, not display. Compiz keeps closing with errors. I have all the eye candy turned off

Hi,

getting the sound to work is half the battle, lets hope that the devs come up with a fix for the Nvidia cards soon (I have an Nvidia card too!!)

Regards Wolfman