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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #717873
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 717873

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Chris (mail-christianmayer) wrote : Re: NVIDIA X driver causes flickering

The X server is also sometimes reseting itself (and thus closing the current X session) or even freezing the system. syslog entries at the relevant time:

Feb 18 23:07:08 obiwan kernel: [ 2582.965683] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 18 23:07:08 obiwan kernel: [ 2582.985837] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 18 23:07:08 obiwan kernel: [ 2583.005110] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 13, 0001 00000000 00005097 0000020c b357e460 0000000c
Feb 18 23:08:12 obiwan kernel: [ 2646.812524] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 18 23:08:12 obiwan kernel: [ 2646.835663] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 13, 0001 00000000 00005097 000015e4 ffe9e8e8 00000005
Feb 18 23:09:53 obiwan kernel: [ 2747.659517] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 18 23:09:53 obiwan kernel: [ 2747.680985] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0001
Feb 18 23:10:20 obiwan kernel: [ 2774.711218] dell-wmi: Received unknown WMI event (0x11)
Feb 18 23:10:21 obiwan kdm[1256]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly