Comment 564 for bug 993187

Well, Jeremy. I do not blame you. There really is no interest from Canonical into fixing this bug. There is no guidance, no follow-up, no reaction.

Yes, truth is that all different comments filed here seem to appear related, but are not necessarily so, making pinpointing the source of this bug difficult, maybe even nigh impossible. But, please canonical, do react then, have this followed up and try to use the snippets of information being posted here, posted on a daily basis! This bug is _highest_ on the heat chart! That should give it some more priority, even if comments appear to be unrelated? If these are duplicated, at least file a list of other bugs and dissallow comments on this one?

I still have this bug, I hoped it would have been a temporary 12.04 issue. 12.10 has the exact same problem though.

I'm on an MSI EX600 laptop with Core2Duo processor and nVidia 8400G card.

As far as I can judge, this is a kernel thing messing up with GPU. Something crept into the later kernels, i.e. above 3.0, shipped with Oneiric 11.10. Oneiric is rock-solid, even with propriety nVidia driver. Every distro I tried with a higher kernel gave problems (but Ubuntu is the harshest - crashing where only a hard reset works). Every distro with a kernel higher than 3.0 makes nVidia's driver unuseable on my system.

About to sign out of this bug as well - but I'll see for a few more weeks.