nvidia 180 driver crashes after ~1/2 hour of usage

[Tomas Cassidy]

I recently upgraded from nvidia 177 drivers to the 180 drivers. Now, after ~1/2 hour of using the computer, the screen pixels turn weird colours (pink/white mostly) and the computer appears to crash. I can't switch VC or run CTRL+ALT+BKSP to reset X11. The only option I have is to hold down the power button to turn off and reset the computer.

Graphics chipset: nvidia 8600GT-M.
Ubuntu 8.10.
nvidia-glx-180: 180.11-0ubuntu1~intrepid1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-glx-180 180.11-0ubuntu1~intrepid1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi tomas-cassidy,

Thanks for including the attached files. Could you also include your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (or Xorg.0.log.old) from after reproducing the issue?

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[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

[Tomas Cassidy (tomas-cassidy)]

I haven't noticed this bug since I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04. If it reappears, I will test the packages in the xorg-edgers PPA.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks for letting us know the issue is resolved.