system freeze with nvidia drivers

[William Shand]

Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 6
nvidia-glx-180 - version 180.37

Right i have an Nvidia geforce 7200, i installed the nvidia-glx-180 driver, however this causes bad display problems (chunks how text while scrolling getting moved - on the internet and on actually programs)

Also causes my system to freeze, requiring me to reboot via the power button

Atm i have reverted to the xorg driver for now, but i want this to get sorted.

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

Happening the same here, x freezing randomly, so no mouse, no keyboard, etc. The screen keeps the last image. Have to restart on the power button...I'm using a 7300 GS.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Happend for me too now for the second time - complete system freeze. I can't find any situation that's connected with the freezes and Xorg.log and kern.log show no crash signs. I attached the output of lspci -vvnn if it helps.

uname -a:
Linux yofel-thinkpad 2.6.28-11-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 18 21:55:34 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

Still having the same behavior on beta

[Caysho (caysho)]

Is this bug the same as the problem I have here ?
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=130765

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Might be, the last 2 times it happend here a new window should be opended (thunderbird, nautilus) and compiz uses glx afaik.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automated message]

In Jaunty (9.04), we have just updated to the latest
nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 package from nVidia, version 180.44.

This package provides fixes for a large number of bugs, and we need your
assistance in testing if it fixes the issue you reported.

To do this, please do the following:

 a. Update to the 180.44 version of -nvidia using your favorite update
     method

 b. Attempt to reproduce your bug

 c. If your bug still remains, please simply reply to this email
     indicating so.

 d. If your bug is now solved, you can help us by setting your bug
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     * Set the Status field to 'Fix Released'
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 e. If the original problem is solved but there are now other problems,
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For details on the changes in this version of -nvidia, please see:

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[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

No luck....keeps freezing everything to me....with a slight change. All the desktop freezes except the mouse. Even the keyboard stops working(ctrl+f1, ctrl+alt+backspace doesn't work).

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

Disabling the desktop effects didn't help

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

Tried this once again and checked the X log file, which has some curious stuff in there....please check it out :)

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

Also ran the nvidia-bug-report tool...here's the file

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

The desktop just locked for about 30 secs, then recovered....here's the Xorg.0.log

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

I think it fits this:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1989407

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

Installing the version 180.53 seems to solve the problem....please upgrade the nvidia packages with this version

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've posted a new version of the -nvidia driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 185.18.14 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.