Fix Snapping Display on your Ubuntu Laptop

One cause of snapping or momentary black horizontal lines across your laptop screen is Nvidia PowerMizer getting out of sycn. This tutorial walks you through a fix for this problem.

Please note: I manually install the latest Nvidia drivers on my computer, so for pre-installed Nvidia drivers using Jockey, I don't know what file to paste the fix in (see below). In this situation, I don't think it will work if you paste into xorg.conf.

Copy this code into your xorg.conf file, save and reboot. If the device section already exists, then just add in the "option" section (starting with option and ending with PowerMizerDefaultAC=0x1")

Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce Go 7400" Option "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerEnable=0x1; PerfLevelSrc=0x2222; PowerMizerDefault=0x3; PowerMizerDefaultAC=0x1"
EndSection

Here is my main research reference: http://tutanhamon.com.ua/technovodstvo/NVIDIA-UNIX-driver/

In the video I opened my xorg.conf file as administrator. This is how you enable the plugin:
install 'nautilus-gksu' in synaptic

Here is a tutorial on how to monitor your GPU temperature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BMFdTHYhoA

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• PowerMizer
• snapping monitor
• Linux
• Nvidia
• laptop
• sync

[GeneralxJarhead]

whats that bar at the bottom that holds ur items next to trash

[shmalignant]

@GeneralxJarhead glx-dock aka cairo dock

[dmplace]

looks good, I may be getting an nvidia card eventually so that's good to know