Comment 5 for bug 350530

I also get the same random crashes in X. I'm using the free driver that comes with Ubuntu (nv). I was getting black screens while trying the Nvidia supplied driver (180.44) installed both manually and using the repository. The legacy drivers (173 and 177) didn't work either; it crashes before it even loads X/desktop. I have not tried nouveau but I suspect the result will be the same.

I have an Asus EN7100GS graphics card; here is the output from lspci:
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07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100 GS (rev a1)
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8222
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
 Region 0: Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Region 1: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 Region 3: Memory at fb000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Expansion ROM at fcfe0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel modules: nvidiafb
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