OpenOffice.org Lock-up on Ubuntu on NVidia Gforce4 MX440 8X video card

[Alex Janssen]

jISh said the following on 08/28/2006 11:51 PM:
> I'm using the regular nvidia-glx driver, I wonder if this has been
> bumped down to a legacy card?
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> There was a version released that totally borked my GL apps/games and I
> had to downgrade and pin the version for a bit. To be honest I'm still
> not sure if that's fixed, I did upgrade it and I only get between
> 500-600 FPS in glxgears. Maybe that explains my XGL/Compiz
> slowness..and I'm running a 2.6GHZ Pentium 4.
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> Never had any OO problems though.
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I thought I should post an update here for all who may have read this 
thread.

All I can say is hardware failure!

I plugged in a new nVidia Gforce FX5200( $47 including shipping from 
globalcomputer.com) and everything was fine.  No more random hang ups.  
Same driver( of course! ).

I can run OpenOffice.org and all my favorite 3d games(planet penguin 
racer).   :-) 
My Ubuntu system is ROCK solid again.
I hate hardware(when it fails).

Thanks for your input,

Alex

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