[ubuntu-za] Music players recently broken in Intrepid?

[Marius Kruger]

2009/4/21 Chris Schoonbee <cmschoonbee at mweb.co.za>:
...
> Within the last week I have also had two or three system freezes  in
> intrepid (can't get to virtual consoles) with screen corruption which
> seem to occur when Firefox is the active window.  I do not know if this
> is related.

I had similar symptoms to this, and I fixed it for me by undoing the recent
upgrade I did of the nvidia binary driver.  I'm back on the 177 one in
stead of the latest 180 one.
It fixed the graphic artefacts and the system freezes for me.

maybe this helps
marius