I surely hope this fix helps, but I'm afraid not as it seems to solve some problems with Intel hardware (I don't have anything Intel-related in my box). Moreover, for about a week I've been using the nv driver (after uninstalling EVERYTHING which had the nVidia name in it), and my machine works like a charm. Not a single freeze or hiccup. SO I doubt that my problems are coming from the Linux kernel alone.
@Alberto Milone: sorry for not answering before to your post. Until now I have tried all versions available of the nVidia driver: from the ones in the Ubuntu repositories (nvidia-glx-new, nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx- legacy), to the ones proposed by both Envy (on Gutsy) and EnvyNG (on Hardy). I just didn't want to try the newest 177.xx as they're beta and they seem to give many problems to users on the nVnews forum. The thing which leaves me puzzled is that my old system (Asus A7V333 mobo + Asus N6600/TD video board + AthlonXP 2400+ CPU) worked really well with nVidia drivers (nvidia-glx-new) under Gutsy; when I upgraded to my actual configuration (Asus A8V Deluxe mobo + Asus N6600/TD video board + Athlon64 X2 3800+ CPU) I kept the software section untouched just to see how it behaved, and everything went smooth except for the freezes which started to plague me. Of course I reinstalled Gutsy, then I tried every possible version of nVidia drivers, then I switched to Hardy (I must have been really desperate as I never install LTS versions); I tried every single tweak I found on forums and blogs; and finally I posted a bug report on the nVnews forum: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=117875 which remained unanswered, probably because now they're focusing on the new 177.xx drivers and mine was the 1000th bug report on the whole "dual-core + nvidia = freezes" issue. -- nvidia with compiz and with dual core freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151382 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
