I hope that the nvidia ion chipset will be incorporated to karmic. I think ion will create a divide between atom fanatics. But as others say the ion may eventually target nettops due to price while the intel chipset will be more on the netbook

----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Howard 
Date: Monday, July 20, 2009 8:25 am
Subject: [Bug 377370] Re: power manager crash
To: <email address hidden>

> Thanks for your debugging work. I'm assigning this to the nvidia 
> driverpackage and confirming. Hopefully they will start 
> including the 185
> drivers soon in Karmic so this work around won't be needed.
> 
> ** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided
>        Status: New
> 
> ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided => Medium
> 
> ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Confirmed
> 
> ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
>        Status: Incomplete => Invalid
> 
> ** Summary changed:
> 
> - power manager crash
> + power manager crash when using nvidia drivers < 185.18
> 
> ** Summary changed:
> 
> - power manager crash when using nvidia drivers < 185.18
> + [9300 / 730i] power manager crash when using nvidia drivers 
> < 185.18
> 
> -- 
> [9300 / 730i] power manager crash when using nvidia drivers < 
> 185.18https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377370
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> 
> Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-180” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> 
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
> 
> Ubuntu 9.04 32
> gnome-power-manager
> 
> I know most reports of this nature concern notebooks, but this 
> is a desktop.
> gpm screen opens OK, but immediately after trying to move 
> sliders system goes to hard freeze,
> must reboot. This is a fresh install.  Able to edit screen 
> blank/sleep options with gconf which worked OK.
> System: Zotac GF9300-A-E (nvidia 730i/9300) integrated graphics
> 
> The following is from another poster with the same motherboard 
> chipset:
> ----System: Asus P5N7A-VM (nvidia 730i/9300) integrated graphics 
> motherboard.
> ubuntu 9.04 + nvidia 180 driver
> Opening power management from the system -> preferences menu 
> causes the computer to hang 100% of the time. The mouse pointer 
> moves, but nothing is selectable and the computer has to be 
> reset via the power switch.
> 
> ubuntu 9.04 + nvidia 173 driver
> Power management will open but appears as a completely blank 
> window. Minimising & reopening a few times gets the sleep time 
> slider bars to appear, but nothing appears to work. However 
> dragging the sliders with the mouse does change the setting - it 
> just isn't visible until you minimise and reopen the window 
> again. N.B. The 173 graphics driver is no good for me, lots of 
> corruption and web pages don't show properly
> 
> ubuntu 8.10 + nvidia 177 driver
> Opening power management causes a system freeze and the sliders 
> don't work, or the window appears blank----
> 
> ProblemType: Bug
> ACAdapter: Not Present
> Architecture: i386
> Battery: Not Present
> CPUScaling: Present
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager
> LaptopPanel: Not Present
> Lsusb:
>  Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>  Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>  Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>  Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> MachineType: NVIDIA MCP7A
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: gnome-power-manager 2.24.2-2ubuntu8
> ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=7cfbe1fa-72c5-40fb-baac-b6f5524cefdd ro 
> quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.42-generic
> SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
>