I have had this issue as well, with Linux Mint 14, Ubuntu 12.10 and every flavor I tried. It is definitely heat related but still a problem with the driver. The fan on my Nvidia GTX 590 had been high the last few weeks and I've had issues with hard drives lately; so when I reinstalled, I started seeing the problem; I finally took the NVIDIA card out, and vaccumed the junk out of it. Now the fan is not on, thankfully, and the system does not crash.
However, the fact that this crash started with a reinstall, tells me that the latest drivers are buggy. The system was working fine before even when the fan was on, and the GPU was getting hot. The install of new system and drivers expose this problem, and heat caused the system (Nvidia driver) to fail. Hope that helps, -- 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/882710 Title: [NVIDIA] Monitor(s) black out and session freezes. "NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus." To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/882710/+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
