Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1860925] Re: Xorg freeze / nouveau driver fault ?

2020-01-29 Thread Moray
Hi I was sort of afraid of the age issue. but having just weaned wife off one EOL O/S probably don't want to step back to another with limited life  :-) Looks like hardware upgrade required. Cheers     Moray On 29/01/2020 02:11, Daniel van Vugt wrote: > Nvidia recommends driver version

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1860925] Re: Xorg freeze / nouveau driver fault ?

2020-01-28 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Nvidia recommends driver version 304 for your model of GPU, but unfortunately that's now too old to support and stopped shipping with Ubuntu after 16.04. So you have a few options: * Keep this bug open and try to solve it by trying newer kernel versions like

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1860925] Re: Xorg freeze / nouveau driver fault ?

2020-01-28 Thread Moray
Hi Basic symptom is screen/system locks up, and PC needs a power cycle to recover it ... it's completely un-response to mouse/keyboard. This is my wife's PC, which I've recently weaned off Win7. A vanilla installation of Ubunto used for browsing/e-mail (Firefox/Thunderbird). Initially I

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1860925] Re: Xorg freeze / nouveau driver fault ?

2020-01-27 Thread Daniel van Vugt
This looks like a nouveau kernel problem, but can you describe the problem you are experiencing? ** Tags added: nouveau ** Package changed: xorg (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.