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[Doug Stewart]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Pedro I. Sanchez <psanchez at colcan.ca> wrote:

> Doug Stewart wrote:
> > Well I finally solved this problem for me.
> >
> >
> > Here is the full story
> >
> >
> >
> > quote from earlier email
> > "
> > Here is the background details:
> > I was running ubuntu 8.4 for 1 year and had all working OK. My daughter
> > bought a laptop for University stuff so we put ubuntu 9.04  on it. (she
> > /we love ubuntu). Then I decided to upgrade to 9.04 on my desk top
> > computer. I read the instructions to upgrade to 8.10 and then to 9.04,
> > and I did that.
> > Since the upgrade and never before the upgrade, the machine has randomly
> > crashed in a frozen state, like it is in an infinite loop.
> >
> > If I am watching a video the sound goes funny then stops and the screen
> > freezes and there is no keyboard response. the Box temperature goes up
> > slowly like the CPU is working at 100%.
> >
> > Without Firefox running it does not freeze. It seems to be related to
> > videos on firefox.
> > "
> >
> > I had 3 partitions on the hard drive XP , ubuntu64 and ubuntu32
> > I decided to sacrifice the ubuntu64 set up and install a fresh version
> > of u32 9.04 on that partition.  In doing it I decided not to reformat
> > and just do a install over what was there! This was a mistake, as it
> > worked but crashed quite often with firefox. I then did it again but I
> > formatted it this time.
> >  During  installation I had to do the safe video mode so that I could
> > see the screen. and after installation tried firefox and  a video and
> > all seemed OK. I then did all the upgrades and installed the video
> > driver. Now it crashed!!!! Since I had  had no way of knowing which
> > upgrade had introduced the problem I started all over again
> >
> > On this attempt, after installation, I tried firefox again and it was
> > OK. I then installed the video driver   " NVIDIA ...(version
> > 180)[Recomended]  " and now it was crashing again. But since this was
> > the only change, I knew I was getting close!!!
> >
> > I then tried " NVIDIA ...(version 96)  ", and the crashing stopped!!!!
> >
> > I then installed all the upgrades, and all was good.
> >
> > I nexed rebooted into my older installation of U32 9.04 and just chaned
> > the video driver
> > to " NVIDIA ...(version 96)  " and all is well   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :-)
> > I wish I had tried this first :-(
> >
> > To document this fully I should post the info about my video card but I
> > have forgoten the command the show this info.
> > Would someone help me with this.
> >
> > Doug
> >
>
> lspci|grep -i vga
>
> --
> Pedro
>
> --

This gave me

07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 SE]
(rev a1)





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