Comment 178 for bug 269904

That suspend-wakeup problem is a segfault. I have a suspicion that the server is distributed with an incompatible kernel module. I just made the 177 version do the same, when I installed it without properly cleaning up the 180. I thought the ubuntu package would simply put the right things in all the right places, but it didn't. For that, the nvidia installer must be run with the --uninstall option. Interestingly, it didn't log any errors before it crashed. It read the config file, the screen blinked a couple times, then segfault.

If it runs under gdm, the latter will attempt to restrat it (in the absence of verbose errors), so this situation is a dead-end. The segfault apparently clobbers the console driver and likely something else. In one instance, it opened the console in the vga mode, with all sorts of random colored ascii characters filling the screen. It writes everything it wants everywhere it wants. I don't know how much of the system survives the crash; the only function I was able to use was the power button -- a single touch on the button brings up the Ubuntu shutdown splash with the progress bar, and then it shuts down.

So I'm back to 177. Still running without loose binding (to ascertain that it makes any difference in scrolling). The only effect so far is that without loose binding, compiz's window fading became rough and jerky, so I had to disable it.