Xorg hangs and/or restarts
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Having a latop with an nVidia Quadro FX 2800M and troubled when using the proprietary driver. :(
I've been using the "Additional Drivers" tool to select the recommended "current" driver. The result were frequent (~every few hours) freezing screens or resets/restarts.
As this was no way to work, I've used the older binary driver of the "Additional Drivers" tool. The few days that I used that driver, everything seemed to be stable - although sometimes quite slow and not smooth (the CPU is an Core i7 so that behaviour is unexpected an unacceptable) during easy tasks like web surfing and moving a window around...
So I've added the PPA to use the latest nVidia binary driver.
The system seemed more stable now and it's fully responsive, as expected.
But now I had a freezing screen again. :(
At least I could log in remotely now and see that Xorg used 100% CPU (of one of the cores, that is) and I could save the log files that showed a clear error now. (-> cf. attachments)
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
For the statistics:
* Distribution is Kubunutu 10.10
* First driver version was: 260.19.06 (I guess. The splash screen also showed "Beta Driver" although it's the normal 10.10 driver) 29-0ubuntu1~ xup~maverick3
* The it was: 173.14.28-0ubuntu1
* Now I'm using "nvidia-current" in version 260.19.