Comment 62 for bug 107093

While it almost looked like everyone was satisfied with the last comment (no offense intended), I am not.
I have a toshiba Satellite notebook, cpu 1.7 Ghz, 1Gig RAM, and yes, more significantly a nVidia GeForce4 420 Go.
When I visit youtube, (and tested this so far with firefox and epiphany) or amazon's 'look inside this book', My computer freezes.

I am running Ubuntu 7.10 'gutsy'.

I tried the disable the powernowd solution, and my results were interesting, if not a solution. Perhaps this helps someone.

Normally (without powernowd disabled) visiting this site results in the following symptoms:
1. cpu rises
2. my mouse starts to slowly stutter ALMOST to a halt (eventually, when the process is complete, I can
   move my mouse around very slowly and with 2 second delay or so, but no mouse buttons work, or at least, no window receives my clicks)
3. ctrl-alt-f1 does not work, ctrl-alt-delete does not work. Nothing works.... only way to get back to a useful ubuntu is to hold my notebook power button down 3 seconds and reboot.

Powernowd disabled
1. cpu rises
2. mouse stutters, but not to a halt. .... still able to do things... but not much
3. ctrl-alt-f1 provokes a change of display to black screen, but no prompt is visible. I am thereafter unable to get back to the GUI.

I have not yet tried using an older version of the nVidia driver, but i'll try that next. I'll post my results.

svaens.