[Bug 107093] Re: System freezes (possibly Gecko)

[lian1238]

I have pretty much the same problem as mentioned above: happens very
often with firefox, unrecoverable by Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, etc, and I use
nVidia as well. (this is an Acer laptop). I used Envy to install the
96.43.01 drivers, as Narsul did (before, I just did automatic install
using Envy). But sadly, I still get the freeze up whether cache cleaning
on exit was turned on or off in FF. 10 minutes ago, I got a freeze up
which I have never before. (the 2nd freeze up after installing the old
nVidia drivers). I had FF running for a long time (about 4 hours) while
I doing other things. Then I clicked on FF and my system froze, I
couldn't click nor type anything, and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace did not work.
The strange thing is that the conky system monitor on my desktop and the
system monitor applet on my panel were still updating (unlike the ones I
had before, where everything stopped. This time, they were running.)
Weird, huh? Does this mean that my system was not really frozen? Was
just non-responsive? Oh, and by the way, the cpu usage was totally
normal during the freeze. I had to hold down the power button to turn it
off and on again, after a minute of waiting.

I also have this other weird thing, I'm not sure if this is related,
though. But after I get a freeze which later unfreezes, from that point
on I get a kind of flicker on my screen once in a while. Like, a black
screen for 1Hz out of the 60Hz my screen is running at. It's really hard
to explain it in words, but I just see the screen flash, as if it
actually blinked.

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System freezes (possibly Gecko)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107093
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