After a few minutes of booting into x the system will completely lock up. The only thing I have found to work around the problem is booting with the maxcpus=1 parameter.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-glx-180 180.37-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 27 09:00:52 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
[lspci]
00:00.0 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller [10de:0369] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7260]
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] [10de:01d1] (rev a1)
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In Jaunty (9.04), we have just updated to the latest graphics- drivers- 180 package from nVidia, version 180.44.
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