Firefox freezes on Ubuntu with NVIDIA graphics driver 180 with GeForce 8600 GT

[Michal Sittek]

Binary package hint: nvidia-glx-180

Hi,

I have a laptop DELL XPS 1530, configuration: Processor Inter Core 2 Duo T8300 2.4 GHz 64bit, Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 128 MB, 3 GB memory

Used program: Firefox 3.0
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10

I installed new proprietary NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 180) and I experienced problems with my Firefox 3.0 which freezes for 30 seconds to 1 minute at different times and websites, then continues running. When I put full screen on you tube video, the effect for opening window freezes in the midst of it and after a while unfreezes and continues on running-the same problem when closing full screen. Also the Firefox works slower than with NVIDIA driver version 177. Sometimes Firefox freezes at closing the application, after about 30 seconds the program finally closes. Ocassionally after closing the application, a random appearance of colored pixels appear on the desktop screen (picture example included in attachment). When returned back to NVIDIA graphics driver version 177 named problems disappeared and Firefox works faster.

The problem is definitively in NVIDIA graphics driver version 180

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi exxxo45,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and maybe Xorg.0.log.old) file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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[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.

[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