Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #616023
  2. Comment #54

Comment 54 for bug 616023

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Joel Wirāmu Pauling (aenertia) (aenertia) wrote :

I get frequent system hangs and kernel oops's when using the 256.44 drivers and current meerkat xorg. tried adding xorg-swat ppa, but nothing from that repo anyways except for more recent nvidia-settings package.

System freezes in one of two ways:

1) X freeze and keyboard freeze ( mouse is still movable but may have screen tearing/corruption) Still able to ssh into machine, but cannot switch between virtual terminals. Shows Xorg at 100% cpu utilisation, and there is NO way to kill the xorg process. reboot and shutdown now (acpi event shutdowns) do not work any more. However I still am able to launch new processes etc. ... except for X related stuff.

2) As above but also causes complete freeze (mouse is still moveable) but networking/existing running services are become unavaialbel.

Using KDE hangs are more frequent than with gnome desktop.

On exit from SMplayer with vdpau seems to reliably cuase the bug.

Using GT240 PCI-E card.