[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-06-23 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Marco Ciampa: >"Ok just for clarify my point: I usually do bug reports not "just for me" but >hoping that my problems help someonelse solve him/hers." That's fine the way you do it. However, speaking to the realities of this report (the way it works here on Launchpad), you are the only one to re

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-06-22 Thread Marco Ciampa
Ok just for clarify my point: I usually do bug reports not "just for me" but hoping that my problems help someonelse solve him/hers. I am perfectly well keeping the old kernel and frankly I do not think to have security problems in this way. To sum up: I have no needs, but I am here if You want

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-06-22 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Marco Ciampa: >"Anyway a backport is really the solution since if someone want to install a 14.04 from scratch instead of upgrading from a 12.04 he/she apparently have no other choice..." Just to clarify, this report isn't about someone else. It's about you, your precise hardware combination, and

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-06-21 Thread Marco Ciampa
Thanks for the advise but according to this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases and if I understand correctly the end of life of 12.04 LTS is far from expired. Anyway a backport is really the solution since if someone want to install a 14.04 from scratch instead of upgrading from a 12.04 he/she appa

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-06-21 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Marco Ciampa, just to advise, when one uses an old 12.04 kernel in 14.04, one is not receiving the standard security, stability, or enablement updates one would normally get using the updates your release comes with. Hence, your choices are request a backport to your present release (i.e. this rep

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-06-21 Thread Marco Ciampa
Sorry I do not understand your question. I have resolved keeping the old 12.04 kernel when updating to 14.04. Thanks to [...] that update program keeps the old kernel. If I tried a new install of 14.04 on that hardware it would result a mission impossible. I am afraid it could not be the only har

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-06-21 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Marco Ciampa, would you need a backport to a release prior to Vivid, or may this be closed as Status Invalid? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1456184 Title: NVidia VGA freeze with

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-06-21 Thread Marco Ciampa
Really strange though. The 15.04 live CD seems to work but if I try to install linux-image-generic-lts-vivid (3.19) on a 14.04, it hangs... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1456184 T

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-06-21 Thread Marco Ciampa
Having al least had occasion to test the PC with 15.04, that kernel (3.19) ... it seems to work! Dmesg report a series of bugs like this (of the top of my head): noveau E[PBUS] [...] MMIO write of 0x0101 FAULT at 0x000 repeated perhaps 10 times... Hope this helps... -- You rec

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-05-30 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Marco Ciampa, let the focus remain on the hardware you originally reported against in this bug report. With this in mind, is this reproducible in VIvid via http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscri

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-05-30 Thread Marco Ciampa
Perhaps there is a misunderstand here: the PC was already updated to the last available BIOS version. If there is a but in the BIOS, than that bug is not going away. BTW I have a friend of mine with a laptop with AMD CPU and more or less the same NVidia card that had similar problems resolved in th

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-05-30 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Marco Ciampa, and now that you updated has anything changed for you? ** Tags removed: bios-outdated-1804 ** Tags added: latest-bios-1804 ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subsc

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-05-30 Thread Marco Ciampa
Output of sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date: 1804 08/23/2010 ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bu

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-05-29 Thread Marco Ciampa
I know that the BIOS is updated to last version available: 1804. I actually am writing from my laptop and that is a desktop PC. As soon as I reach that PC I'll do what I was asked to do and I will post the results... Thanks for your patience. -- You received this bug notification because you a

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1456184] Re: NVidia VGA freeze with new kernels

2015-05-18 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Marco Ciampa, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. As per http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M2N68AM_PLUS/HelpDesk_Download/ an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (1804). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate d