Xorg freeze

[Johnny Boy]

I'm using a macbook pro with the GeForce 330m graphics card.

Whenever I plugin a 2nd display as an extention (not cloned display option) with the highest resolution 1920x1080 the screen will lock up.
This is also happening frequently when using lower resolution after a while.

Cloning the display has been working fine, except for that Compiz crashes every now and then.

Another problem that could be related to this is that the boot screen where you are supposed to enter a password for luks encryption always results in a black screen (but I can still type the password and hit enter and wait for X to start).

I will try and see if I can provide some more logs after triggering the error

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 9 19:37:05 2012
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GpuHangFrequency: Several times a week
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-13 (26 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64+mac (20120926)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg freeze
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
DistroVariant: ubuntu
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-13 (49 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64+mac (20120926)
MarkForUpload: True
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-19.30-generic 3.5.7
Tags: quantal running-unity ubuntu
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-19-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: Please work this issue through technical support channels first.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Johnny Boy (balboah)]

If I deactivate the laptop display while using an external it seems to work even in the higher resolution.
But it will always crash if I use both displays with their highest resolutions

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

please run 'apport-collect 1077123'

[Johnny Boy (balboah)]

apport information

[Johnny Boy (balboah)]

See above for dmesg and Xorg logs as well which I managed to get after triggering the problem again again (after full apt upgrades).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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