It would be useful to know if nouveau boots your system with acceleration disabled. Could you please try booting adding the “nouveau.noaccel=1” option to your boot line? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Nouveau#Disable%20acceleration has details if you're unsure how to do this.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium => High -- Ubuntu 10.4 freezes on x-server start with Geforce 3 TI200 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/544088 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ 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