I think I can now reliably produce this bug:
Install Ubuntu on a System with official NVidia-Drivers whith the
graphics older than G80 and system becomes unstable as written above.
Tested on:
1. Core2 with Geforce 7600
2. Pentium M with Geforce 6400M
3. Pentium 4 with Geforce 6800 AGP
4. Athlon
Now I am in a Catch 22 situation:
By using the propietary drivers I get instability and display errors.
By using Nouveau I can not start Steam due other libGL errors (see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/steam/+bug/1527669 - the
workaround is only viable for official drivers, nouveau is
Let me add that at first I got tons of these logs:
syslog.2.gz:May 6 09:37:13 merl1 kernel: [ 642.861032] NVRM: Xid
(PCI::01:00): 1, Channel 0002 Method 0060 Data beef0233
syslog.2.gz:May 6 09:37:14 merl1 kernel: [ 644.665198] NVRM: Xid
(PCI::01:00): 1, Channel 0002
Public bug reported:
The system was running ubuntu 12.04 without any problems, quite fast and
definitly worth keeping, I was able to play 3D games at decent quality
while using official nvidia drivers. Overall a pretty stable system
based on an Intel 965 Chipset and a Geforce 7600.
I did a clean
My problem with my i810 seems to be the same and the crude fix of
reinstalling the old version through sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-
video-intel=2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1 and pinning it with sudo apt-mark hold
xserver-xorg-video-intel=2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1 is working.
Let me tell you some background
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