I have a similar problem on my Dell e6400 with an NVidia NVS 160m graphics card.
Depending on how hard the crash is I can still use the system or switch to a console. Here is what I have in my Xorg.0.log.old after a reboot. It looks to me the NVidia Driver crashes. (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART. (WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA X driver has encountered too many errors. Falling (WW) NVIDIA(0): back to write-back cached memory. Here is a screenshot of what the screen looks like when it crashes. http://www.avecstyle.ca/screenshots/2.jpg -- Kubuntu Jaunty 64 bits hangups often with nvidia-glx-180 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363672 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs