X flickers, hangs, then recovers (similar to Bug #352927)

[lackscr8ivity]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

This sounds similar to Bug #352927, except that mine recovered (i.e., I didn't have to restart).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.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) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller [8086:29c0] (rev 02)
     Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:5044]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT [10de:0421] (rev a1)
     Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:0960]

[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

[lackscr8ivity (lackscr8ivity)]

Bryce,

OK, installed. I'll post if I have any more problems.

[lackscr8ivity (lackscr8ivity)]

Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I continued to have strange things happening. The screen would freeze but there were no error messages. The system started rebooting itself hourly, but there were no cron jobs set. Other computers that my lab bought at the same time had similar problems, but they had different configurations. We chose to remove the video cards: MSI NX8500GT-TD256E (on one video card all the capacitors had "blown"). We've started using the VGA port on the motherboard and ceased to use the NVIDIA drivers.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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