Comment 4 for bug 726496

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Well, the workaround would be to use -nouveau with the experimental 3d mesa driver. But YMMV... that is unsupported and is a bit hit-or-miss for some people.

Another thing to try would be to uninstall and re-install -nvidia, which should force a rebuild of the kernel driver. Kind of a long-shot though.

Booting an earlier kernel might be worthwhile just in case it is a kernel ABI inconsistency. Hold down <shift> while booting to see the menu to select previously installed kernel versions.

As far as debugging, you could peruse these general upstream links:
  http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58498
  ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/270.30/README/knownissues.html

I briefly scanned through them myself but didn't spot anything obviously applicable here. Perhaps something relevant would catch your eye though.

Another place to check is the upstream forums:
  http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

There are a couple reports of black screen / freezing bugs, but the symptoms sound slightly different than yours:
  http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=159440
  http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=159544