Alberto, thanks for the suggestion, but I've seen that suggested on forums for months, for several driver versions, and people have reported that persistent mode makes no difference. It also doesn't make sense that it should help, given what it says on the man page. And I've used this laptop for years and had no need for persistent mode. Right now I don't want to go back to the super-crashy driver to test a setting that probably won't fix it. There is clearly a bug introduced by NVIDIA that they need to fix.
Are you suggesting that I try that because of something you read on a forum, or did someone from NVIDIA indicate it might work around the crash, or...? On Monday, June 4, 2012, Alberto Milone wrote: > @Adam: does it help if you do the following? > > sudo nano -w /etc/rc.local > > Add the following line before the "exit 0" line: > > /usr/bin/nvidia-smi -pm 1 > > Then press "Ctrl+o" to save and "Ctrl+x" to exit. > > Then reboot and see if you can still reproduce the issue. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/982710 > > Title: > [regression] Nvidia 295.40 driver is extremely slow > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/982710/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/982710 Title: [regression] Nvidia 295.40 driver is extremely slow To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/982710/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp