** Description changed: The latest stable nvidia-current from Oneiric repos (280.13-0ubuntu1) hangs up my system. - This happens every time I start synaptic. - Then, if I try to close it, it won't close until the system asks to force quit it. - Then, however, the whole system hangs (speeding up CPU). + This happens every time after I have started synaptic. + Then, if I try to close this application, it won't close until the system asks to force quit it. + Then, however, the whole system hangs (also speeding up CPU). If I then try to shut down or reboot, I get a message saying terminal is not responding. So somehow terminal process does not appear to shut down. - This is easy to reproduce, as it happens each time I install nvidia- + This is easy to reproduce, as it happens every time with nvidia- current_280.13. The previous version 275.09.07-0ubuntu4 works just fine. In addition to this, also the beta version 280.04 (from xorg-edgers) works OK. - However, the later beta 280.11 will also hang up my system just like 280.13 does. + However, the later beta 280.11 will also hang up just like 280.13 does. + + This issue seems to be related to cairo and particularly enabling gl support. + This feature was applied to cairo from the version 1.10.2-6ubuntu1. + Downgrading cairo to earlier version (1.10.2-2ubuntu4) solves the issue. + This leads to the conclusion that nvidia-current is incompatible with gl enabled cairo. I have a fully updated 64-bit Oneiric-alfa3 Mobo: Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P Graphics card: XFX GTX285 1 GB
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