Hi Christopher, today I tried out the Nouveau driver again (I upgraded the BIOS about 1 month ago), unfortunately the outcome is still the same :\
I booted up with the Nouveau driver, logged in and started browsing the system: in less than one minute everything but the mouse froze up. Few more seconds and the cursor stopped moving as well. I rebooted, I wanted to re-install the NVidia Proprietary driver back. I logged in, opened the "Software & Updates" dialog and clicked on the Nvidia driver. Unfortunately, after about 45-60 seconds, the system froze up and blocked again. I should mention that the keyboard was not working either, probably the entire system was blocked. I tried to press Alt + F1 (but also F2, F3, etc...) and nothing happened. I had an open console and tried to blindly type in "sudo reboot" and my password to reboot the system, but that didn't work either. The output of the command you passed me is: $ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date A18 06/28/2013 Thanks for your interest in this issue, let me know if I can help some more. Regards, Giordano -- 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/1241595 Title: 10de:1056 [Dell Latitude E6520] System freezes when using nouveau driver with Nvidia NVS 4200M Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I enabled the Nouveau driver in my Ubuntu 13.10 and started using my laptop. After I used it for few minutes (3-4 minutes) the system froze. Only the mouse was working. After about 1 minute the mouse cursor stopped responding as well, leaving me with a 100% frozen laptop. I couldn't even switch to a console (Alt + F1) and reboot gracefully. I had to do an hard reboot. The problem arises every time I start my pc, I can only use it for few minutes. The mouse cursor is always the last to freeze. WORKAROUND: Enable the Nvidia proprietary drivers. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.9-2ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: compiz CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0' CompositorUnredirectFSW: true CurrentDmesg: Error: command ['sh', '-c', 'dmesg | comm -13 --nocheck-order /var/log/dmesg -'] failed with exit code 1: comm: /var/log/dmesg: Permission denied Date: Fri Oct 18 15:24:52 2013 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: saucy DistroVariant: ubuntu EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches GraphicsCard: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [NVS 4200M] [10de:1056] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0494] MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6520 MarkForUpload: True ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-12-generic root=UUID=10f4484c-5111-4b16-b2c8-56adb9691331 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 08/15/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A15 dmi.board.name: 0J4TFW dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A01 dmi.chassis.type: 9 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd08/15/2012:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6520:pvr01:rvnDellInc.:rn0J4TFW:rvrA01:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr: dmi.product.name: Latitude E6520 dmi.product.version: 01 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.10+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.46-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.2.1-1ubuntu3 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.2.1-1ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.14.3-3ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu3.1 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.2.0-0ubuntu10 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.904-0ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.9-2ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/1241595/+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
