[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 502032] Re: [karmic] periodic crashes in active use, returning to gdm login. nvidia-glx-173 (nvidia 5200)

2010-10-16 Thread Andrew R
Hello, Fabio, I got a dialog box whilst apport was gathering information, stating that drivers downloaded from nvidia can interfere with ubuntu's drivers, and asking me to uninstall the downloaded driver. I need to use the (downloaded) nvidia prerelease (172.14.28) as it provides compatibility wit

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 502032] Re: [karmic] periodic crashes in active use, returning to gdm login. nvidia-glx-173 (nvidia 5200)

2010-10-16 Thread Andrew R
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected ** Description changed: Binary package hint: xorg Ubuntu 9.10. nvidia-glx-173 - 173.14.20-0ubuntu5 (nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)) xorg - 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 I am unable to post steps to reproduce this bug; it app

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 502032] Re: [karmic] periodic crashes in active use, returning to gdm login. nvidia-glx-173 (nvidia 5200)

2010-10-16 Thread Andrew R
173.14.28 is the latest driver, for my (legacy) GeForce 5200 graphics adaptor. To quote http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606 : Current NVIDIA Linux graphics driver releases: Current official release: 260.19.12 (x86 / x86_64) Legacy releases for GeForce 5 series G

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 502032] Re: [karmic] periodic crashes in active use, returning to gdm login. nvidia-glx-173 (nvidia 5200)

2010-01-01 Thread Andrew R
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37337101/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37337102/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37337103/Dependencies.txt ** A

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 502032] [NEW] [karmic] periodic crashes in active use, returning to gdm login. nvidia-glx-173 (nvidia 5200)

2010-01-01 Thread Andrew R
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg Ubuntu 9.10. nvidia-glx-173 - 173.14.20-0ubuntu5 (nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)) xorg - 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 I am unable to post steps to reproduce this bug; it appears to happen under what i would call 'normal' system use, without