Comment 59 for bug 107093

I have pretty much the same problem as mentioned above: happens very often with firefox, unrecoverable by Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, etc, and I use nVidia as well. (this is an Acer laptop). I used Envy to install the 96.43.01 drivers, as Narsul did (before, I just did automatic install using Envy). But sadly, I still get the freeze up whether cache cleaning on exit was turned on or off in FF. 10 minutes ago, I got a freeze up which I have never before. (the 2nd freeze up after installing the old nVidia drivers). I had FF running for a long time (about 4 hours) while I doing other things. Then I clicked on FF and my system froze, I couldn't click nor type anything, and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace did not work. The strange thing is that the conky system monitor on my desktop and the system monitor applet on my panel were still updating (unlike the ones I had before, where everything stopped. This time, they were running.) Weird, huh? Does this mean that my system was not really frozen? Was just non-responsive? Oh, and by the way, the cpu usage was totally normal during the freeze. I had to hold down the power button to turn it off and on again, after a minute of waiting.

I also have this other weird thing, I'm not sure if this is related, though. But after I get a freeze which later unfreezes, from that point on I get a kind of flicker on my screen once in a while. Like, a black screen for 1Hz out of the 60Hz my screen is running at. It's really hard to explain it in words, but I just see the screen flash, as if it actually blinked.