nvidia drivers work great except flash playback is very choppy and if i watch a video with vlc the system will lock up(running xfx 7600gt) worked just fine until a couple releases ago, now my system is useless in ubuntu.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
for 3 years i ran the same hardware with every release of ubuntu and it ran perfectly, until about 6 months ago. now i have issues with sound/video/flash. the sound doesn't work right, the settings won't stay where i put them and the playback is low and choppy. the nvidia drivers look pretty with compiz, but with or without compiz the computer freezes up when i play a video with vlc-works fine until every 5-10 videos it freezes. i get errors with movieplayer-
i only used ubuntu with this pc I have not changed the hardware, but now it is completely useless and i've had to go back to windows because it works perfectly in windows. i've tried suse/slackware/
i'm assuming the video problems have to do with nvidia's drivers, since the ~ 2-3 year old drivers(which nvidia does not make available for download) worked JUST FINE. still, the alsa problem is a total show stopper on its own, for me, in ubuntu.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 26 22:25:04 2010
DkmsStatus: nvidia-current, 195.36.24, 2.6.32-21-generic, i686: installed
GdmLog1: Error: command ['gksu', '-D', 'Apport', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/
GdmLog2: Error: command ['gksu', '-D', 'Apport', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 03/03/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: AW9D-MAX (Intel i975-ICH7)
dmi.board.vendor: http://
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixT
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: i686
kernel: 2.6.32-21-generic
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
I have reassigned this issue to nvidia- graphics- drivers package for now, thanks.