I can confirm this bug, though I'm not sure it's related to linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24. I started having freeze problems when I switched my old Asus motherboard and Athlon XP 2400+ to another Asus mobo with Athlon64 X2 3800+. I did not reinstall Gutsy - I just booted to see how the system behaved. Everything was fine, except that I started having the randomic freeze problems with the very same graphic drivers (nvidia-glx-new) that I had been using up to then.
Of course I reinstalled the whole system, then I changed to nvidia-glx and even nvidia-glx-legacy, tried installing various versions of the nVidia drivers with and without Envy, tried tweaking system settings (a good improvement was adding the line: Option "BackingStore" "False" to my xorg.conf, as stated in the Compiz FAQ, and another was disabling Powermizer monitoring in nvidia-settings). My video board is an AGP8x Asus nVidia 6600TD, which was running at 4x with the old motherboard (but I tried setting it to 4x without results). I'd like to point out that the dual-core/nVidia freeze problem doesn't affect just Compiz. Even with graphic effects disabled, leaving the screensaver Fieldlines on for some time brings my system to a lockup (sometimes it's total, sometimes it just looks like X server only is frozen; I can guess from the led activity on my ADSL router). Finally, something I think is very important: freezes largely happen when an upload or download is going on. My benchmark for testing them is leaving aMule running, and letting Fieldlines screensaver kick in. I leave the system like this for a while (about half an hour), and I am pretty sure I will find it frozen. Instead, without any download running, I can work even for a whole day without freezes. This is also stated in this forum (francophone only): http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1293717#p1293717 Sorry for the long post. -- nvidia with compiz and with dual core freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151382 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
