Xorg freeze

[Tom Moorhouse]

It was the proprietary nvidia drivers that were doing it (version 295.4). They don't like my GeForce 8400m g card one little bit). My Ubunutu 12.04 installation was almost completely unusable: it was running slowly and hanging / freezing frequently, especially when using the ethernet (e.g. software centre or Firefox). After much frustrating (because of the hangs/ constant hard power-downs) searching I found this: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=178460 and uninstalled the proprietary drivers (I attempted to install the older versions from Software Centre but apparently they aren't compatible). Now running Ubuntu 2d but at least I haven't had a crash since!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6+12ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 29 10:22:54 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GpuHangFrequency: Continuously
GpuHangReproducibility: Occurs more often under certain circumstances
GpuHangStarted: Immediately after installing this version of Ubuntu
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
MachineType: FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO Pa 2548
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic-pae root=UUID=6b7761a9-1778-4e35-9461-f36110983f96 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg freeze
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 02/13/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix
dmi.bios.version: 1.0H-4921-000F
dmi.board.name: PTT50
dmi.board.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
dmi.board.version: 8Q8502720
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
dmi.chassis.version: Version 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenix:bvr1.0H-4921-000F:bd02/13/2008:svnFUJITSUSIEMENS:pnAMILOPa2548:pvr20:rvnFUJITSUSIEMENS:rnPTT50:rvr8Q8502720:cvnFUJITSUSIEMENS:ct10:cvrVersion1.0:
dmi.product.name: AMILO Pa 2548
dmi.product.version: 20
dmi.sys.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.6-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2