Sorry, it is not up to you to support a bug. What I am proposing is a
workaround so people don't end up with a unusable system. Don't bother
us, go to nvidia is IMHO not what is Ubuntu about. Don't use
proprietary driver is also a completely unrealistic advice for most
users, you might as well
Public bug reported:
This is not a bug report but more of feature request.
I cannot use any nvidia driver newer than 185.18.14 on my Sony Vaio
AR520E with Nvidia 8400M GT. The symptoms are, screen flickering,
artifacts, complete system freeze, etc. It turns out that this is a well
known problem
OK, found the problem. Actually this turns out to be well known problem
with current nvidia drivers. The workaround is to turn powermizer off.
Create a file called /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf with this in it:
options nvidia NVreg_RegistryDwords=PerfLevelSrc=0x
I am opening a request that
Bryce, I am assuming you are the maintainer. Can you give me some
pointers on how I can provide more debugging info? The gdm log file is
zero bytes, I guess the X server crashes before any message can be
logged. Nor could I find anything unusual in the syslogs. If you can
tell me what I need to
I just installed Karmic beta and I have the same problem. nvidia v.
185.18 is unusable, flickering screen, random garbage and finally
lockup. Please reopen the bug report
** Changed in: eglibc (Ubuntu Karmic)
Status: Fix Released = Incomplete
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[karmic] Xorg (and anything GLX) crashes
Public bug reported:
I cant use the new nvidia driver at all. This is on a fresh Karmic beta
64 bit install. I was using version 185.18.14 just fine on jaunty. On
karmic if I load v.185 the screen either becomes garbled or the text-
mode terminal starts flashing before X starts. I have an 8400M
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