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

[Chris Schoonbee]

I use the vesa driver because I just cannot seem to get nvidia to stay 
working between reboots.  But I checked which versions I have installed 
and I see that I have 177 installed but not 180.  The last 
nvidia-related package I seem to have installed was nvidia-common from 
0.2.4 to 0.2.4.1 on 8 April which is a while before these problems 
started appearing.

Thanks for your advice though.

Marius Kruger wrote:
> 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
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