TNT2 m64 (NV5M64) freezes on desktop tooltip activation
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xserver-
Booting from a fresh 10.04 Desktop i386 cd. System comes up normally until a the mouse is hovered over an icon (eg: firefox or help default icon) and a tooltip is generated. The system then locks up. Unable to start a virtual terminal with ctrl-alt-f1-6.
System responds to alt-sysreq-REISUB and can reboot.
After following the suggestions on the troubleshooting portion of the wiki the logs seem to fill up with this stuff: (https:/
Adding nouveau.noaccel=1 as a kernel boot parameter results in a successful boot and I am unable to reproduce the freeze.
Expected behaviour: Desktop doesn't freeze when hovering mouse pointer over icon when using nouveau driver in accelerated mode.
Actual behaviour: Desktop freezes when hovering mouse pointer over icon when using nouveau driver in accelerated mode.
[snippet from xorg.0.log]
(--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:002d:0000:0000 nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] rev 21, Mem @ 0xe6000000/
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: lucid |
summary: |
- [lucid] TNT2 m64 (NV5M64) freezes on desktop tooltip activation with - final liveCD + TNT2 m64 (NV5M64) freezes on desktop tooltip activation with final + liveCD |
summary: |
- TNT2 m64 (NV5M64) freezes on desktop tooltip activation with final - liveCD + TNT2 m64 (NV5M64) freezes on desktop tooltip activation |
Another user mentioned the same issue on the ubuntu forums.
http:// ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?t=1461234