X Freezes With Nvidia GLX Drivers

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:01:12PM -0700, Matt Patterson wrote:

> I have a ubuntu system (universe packages installed) with a GeForce MX 
> 440 that has TV out. I enabled TwinView so I could watch movies on my 
> TV, which required the install of the nvidia-glx package. Even before I 
> enabled the nvidia drivers I noticed that the system would freeze, all 
> user input didnt work and the screen did not update, but the system was 
> still up. I could ssh in and restart gdm and things would come back. I 
> also noticed that nautilus wil crash somewhat regularly, possibly 
> because I access a lot of data of mounted smb drives.

Yes, these drivers are known to cause some problems merely by being
installed, even if you don't use them in X.  This is why they are not
installed by default.

For example:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1724

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 - mdz