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.

[me]

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--connection terminated, etc. trying to watch a flash video online is pointless, because after 20 seconds of playback it stops working and is unwatchable and choppy, etc.

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/gentoo/etc. the sound problem hasn't shown up in those distros, but the video playback(freezing the pc and choppy/unwatchable flash) is the exact same as in ubuntu.

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
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
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/gdm/:0.log.1'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1: No such file or directory
GdmLog2: Error: command ['gksu', '-D', 'Apport', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.2'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.2: No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=8af8f40c-9682-43df-aa3b-efcb38c13c0d ro quiet splash
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://www.abit.com.tw/
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd03/03/2008:svn:pn:pvr:rvnhttp//www.abit.com.tw/:rnAW9D-MAX(Inteli975-ICH7):rvr1.0:cvn:ct3:cvr:
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-21-generic

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

I have reassigned this issue to nvidia-graphics-drivers package for now, thanks.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported; please open a new bug report if the actual archive found version also has the same issue.