Short story: About four days ago I installed the Nvidia-current display driver and removed the Nouveau display driver and my system has not frozen
Long story: To remove the “Nouveau display driver” first install the “Nvidia-Current” display driver. I ran into trouble because I removed the Nouveau -specific kernel DRM services -runtime and the “system settings” stopped working. Then I ran into more trouble because I removed the Nouveau display driver before installing the Nvidia-Current. Somehow I was able to go to a shell and installed the Nvidia-current driver with sudo apt-get -install nvidia-current (or something like that). That made the graphics work but still the “system settings” did not work. I reinstalled the Nouveau -specific kernel DRM services -runtime and the “system settings' still did not work. I found out that I needed to install or reinstall de Gnome-Control-Center and I did using “sudo apt-get -reinstall gnome-control-center” or “sudo apt-get -install gnome-control-center”. Since I kept uninstalling and reinstalling the “runtime”, the “reinstall” worked at one point but then it didn't so I finally used the “install”. My system has been working fine since then and has not frozen, but I'm not using the Nouveau Display Driver -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1242767 Title: computer freeze trying to exit "gnome-control-center" Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: 1) Description: Ubuntu 13.10 Release: 13.10 === 2) gnome-control-center: Installed: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu44 Candidate: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu44 Version table: *** 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu44 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) I expect to be able to exit System Settings (gnome-control-center), without freezing the computer 4) Clicking on the "X" to exit System Settings, the computer froze. No response whatsoever. A power cycle was needed. This happens using NOUVEAU driver only. If I install NVIDIA driver, then this problem does not occur. Hardware: VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 Processor 4GB ram 650GB hard drive ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Oct 21 08:51:15 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-19 (2 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_gnome-control-center: deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1 gnome-control-center-datetime 13.10.0+13.10.20131016.2-0ubuntu1 gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.7~+13.10.20130724.1-0ubuntu1 gnome-control-center-unity 1.3+13.10.20131004-0ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/1242767/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
