07-03-2017, 07:01 AM
1. Yes, the screen started flickering badly, initially I thought it was a hardware failure, but research suggested that it 'might be' driver related so I switched back to the X Nouveau driver.
2. By using the additional drivers and selecting X Nouveau, I then tried apt remove --purge and that came back with use autoremove which I did and that appears to have removed Nvidia.
3. I doubt that, as this is laptop is used purely for browsing and email and watching an occasional movie so I don't need any bells and whistles just functionality. I fired this up again to test something under wine as I'm seriously considering moving away from MS.
4. If this is a quiz starter I'll pass....
Output from your request
System: Host: linux-lite Kernel: 4.4.0-84-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 (Gtk 2.24.28) Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
Machine: System: Hewlett-Packard product: Compaq Presario CQ50 Notebook PC v: F.54
Mobo: Wistron model: 360A v: 08.60
Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: F.54 date: 08/18/2009
CPU: Dual core AMD Turion RM-70 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips: 7999
clock speeds: max: 2000 MHz 1: 2000 MHz 2: 1000 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA C77 [GeForce 8200M G] bus-ID: 02:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: [email protected]
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVAA
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 12.0.6 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card NVIDIA MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:07.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-84-generic
Network: Card-1: NVIDIA MCP77 Ethernet
driver: forcedeth port: 30f8 bus-ID: 00:0a.0
IF: enp0s10 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
driver: ath5k bus-ID: 07:00.0
IF: wlp7s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (17.1% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: FUJITSU_MHW2080B size: 80.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 72G used: 12G (17%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.88GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 64.2C mobo: 58.0C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 179 Uptime: 2 min Memory: 318.6/1747.1MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35
TBH because I can't resolve this I'm seriously thinking about reinstalling, I did find something yesterday that was a command line that seemed to force the display of the title bar and buttons, but whilst it did they were out of focus and with a reboot I was back to square one.
2. By using the additional drivers and selecting X Nouveau, I then tried apt remove --purge and that came back with use autoremove which I did and that appears to have removed Nvidia.
3. I doubt that, as this is laptop is used purely for browsing and email and watching an occasional movie so I don't need any bells and whistles just functionality. I fired this up again to test something under wine as I'm seriously considering moving away from MS.
4. If this is a quiz starter I'll pass....
Output from your request
System: Host: linux-lite Kernel: 4.4.0-84-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 (Gtk 2.24.28) Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
Machine: System: Hewlett-Packard product: Compaq Presario CQ50 Notebook PC v: F.54
Mobo: Wistron model: 360A v: 08.60
Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: F.54 date: 08/18/2009
CPU: Dual core AMD Turion RM-70 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips: 7999
clock speeds: max: 2000 MHz 1: 2000 MHz 2: 1000 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA C77 [GeForce 8200M G] bus-ID: 02:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: [email protected]
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVAA
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 12.0.6 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card NVIDIA MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:07.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-84-generic
Network: Card-1: NVIDIA MCP77 Ethernet
driver: forcedeth port: 30f8 bus-ID: 00:0a.0
IF: enp0s10 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
driver: ath5k bus-ID: 07:00.0
IF: wlp7s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (17.1% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: FUJITSU_MHW2080B size: 80.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 72G used: 12G (17%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.88GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 64.2C mobo: 58.0C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 179 Uptime: 2 min Memory: 318.6/1747.1MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35
TBH because I can't resolve this I'm seriously thinking about reinstalling, I did find something yesterday that was a command line that seemed to force the display of the title bar and buttons, but whilst it did they were out of focus and with a reboot I was back to square one.