Comment 14 for bug 456637

No proposed fix for this yet? I have been running Karmic without any issues ever since the awesome workaround, but it would indeed be a formidable experience for someone unfamiliar with this problem to install a new system and see everything go haywire. If the solution is not to disable powermizer, it must be for the nvidia driver to check if the relevant drivers for fan speed etc are correctly installed or not - I believe that if they are not, and usually they are not, then the powermizer reports fake values causing the system to freeze? If it were to detect they are not installed, powermizer should be disabled, else left turned on for instance for someone like hackel above who does need it.