My gnome session kept crashing using the nouveau driver when
surfing the web with a high graphic content site. After researching, I
decided to use the proprietary drivers from Nvidia. After installing
those drivers, I could not start a X session (gdm), I would get the
"white screen of death" at boot, after the Ubuntu splash.
After a couple of days, I found that adding Option
"UseDisplayDevice" "DFP" in my Device section of the xorg.conf fixed
that. My gdm stopped crashing, all looked happy. Then I played a
video, and when I tried to go to full screen, the player crashed as
reported above.
Disabling the effects under the Visual Effects tab in System -
Preferences - Appearance solved the full screen problem.
Here is a report from sysinfo:
System information report, generated by Sysinfo: 6/11/2010 2:53:42 AM
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsysinfo
SYSTEM INFORMATION
Running Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) release.
GNOME: 2.30.0 (Ubuntu 2010-03-31)
Kernel version: 2.6.32-22-generic (#36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 22:02:19
UTC 2010)
GCC: 4.4.3 (i486-linux-gnu)
Xorg: unknown (23 April 2010 05:11:50PM)
Hostname: toshiba
Uptime: 0 days 2 h 10 min
CPU INFORMATION
GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 2.00GHz
Number of CPUs: 1
CPU clock currently at 2000.000 MHz with 512 KB cache
Numbering: family(15) model(2) stepping(4)
Bogomips: 3986.43
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm up pebs bts
MEMORY INFORMATION
Total memory: 1002 MB
Total swap: 740 MB
STORAGE INFORMATION
SCSI device - scsi0
Vendor: ATA
Model: TOSHIBA MK4019GA
SCSI device - scsi0
Vendor: TEAC
Model: DW-224E
SCSI device - scsi3
Vendor: WD
Model: 6400AAV External
HARDWARE INFORMATION
MOTHERBOARD
Host bridge
Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset Host Bridge
(rev 04)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
PCI bridge(s)
Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset AGP Bridge (rev
04)
Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
USB controller(s)
NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) (prog-if 10)
NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) (prog-if 10)
NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02) (prog-if 20)
ISA bridge
Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
IDE interface
Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller (rev 02)
(prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
GRAPHIC CARD
VGA controller
nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 460 Go] (rev a3)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
SOUND CARD
Multimedia controller
Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0002
NETWORK
Network controller
Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter
(rev 04)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 2565
Ethernet controller
Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet
Controller (rev 42)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
Modem
Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
NVIDIA GRAPHIC CARD INFORMATION
Model name: GeForce4 460 Go
Card Type: AGP 4x
Video RAM: 32 MB
GPU Frequency: 249 MHz
Driver version: NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 96.43.17 Thu Apr 15
05:28:41 PDT 2010
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Totem and VLC crash when doing just about anything with visual effects enabled
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249222
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