[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 760632] Re: Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system

2011-05-09 Thread Szymon Tomasz Stefanek
I agree that it might be an interaction between X 1.10 and the nvidia drivers. In my workaround I have also replaced X with an older version. However the combination of X 1.10 and the 173 series of nvidia drivers does not exhibit the issue here (it actually has different problems). -- You receiv

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 760632] Re: Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system

2011-05-04 Thread Szymon Tomasz Stefanek
A workaround is to downgrade to nvidia-current 260. Unfortunately an ABI incompatibility requires also to downgrade to XOrg 1.9 and the whole process has to be done manually. Fetch the packages via wget (note that I'm using the x86_64 packages here: replace amd64 with i386 if needed) wget htt

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 760632] Re: Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system

2011-05-04 Thread Szymon Tomasz Stefanek
I confirm that the problem is caused by the nvidia 270.41.06 drivers (and not primairly by konsole). I can reproduce it with kvirc and gimp by just resizing (or maximizing) them. The symptom is a hangup of the entire system or "pixelated" corruption of the screen (see the attached screenshot).