It happens whether or not I'm playing a video. Most of the videos I
watch are not flash videos. They're mostly avi files with xvid, but
some were mpeg1 or mpeg2. I used vlc to play them.
On 11/10/2011 16:32, Dazed_75 wrote:
All of your issues sound like they happen when playing
videos. Is that true or are there other times as well?
As far as what else it could be, there could be lots of
possibilities but they might be hard to track down to elements
that are common to Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Fedora. If it is
localized to playing videos, I would certainly be suspicious of
the command line based underpinnings the players might use. Oh,
and are the videos Flash based or not?
If you are coming to the meeting tonight and can come to the
restaurant after, someone there may be able to help.
Try looking to see if you are
using the open source generic nvidia driver or the
proprietary one. I am not sure where that is in the
Kubuntu menus but look for something in System, or
Administration with a name that is probably something
about Hardware. It should run a program that looks to
see if there are proprietary drivers you might choose to
use.
When I first installed the os I noticed the problem with the
driver it came with. I checked and found where it suggested
a proprietary driver and offered one other. I chose the one
that was recommended. The bug showed itself with the driver
that came with the install and the one I installed later.
I AM curious though if you have
some particular reason for suspecting it is due to you
having that video card since a screen freeze could be
something above the driver level.
I've had that card for about 2 years while the machine was
running XP and didn't have this problem. It only showed
itself after I installed the latest Ubuntu and Kubuntu
version as well as the other latest linux flavors I
mentioned earlier. Fedora 15 was the worst. It would
freeze the screen as soon as I started playing a video. The
others would let me watch at least for a few minutes before
the screen froze.
Also if it's not a driver problem, what else could it be?
I have an NVIDIA Geforce
8400 GS card that plugs into a PCI slot. I have no
problems with it in XP, but when I installed Kubuntu
11.10 I found a problem. Occasionally the screen
freezes. I can't switch to a console. Also I can't
kill the x server. I know the machine has not
completely locked up because when I have audio
playing, it keeps playing even though the screen has
frozen. None of the usual means to shut down a
machine work. The only thing I can do is hit the
reset button, press the power switch for several
seconds until the machine shuts off, or pull the
plug. I've encountered this on Ubuntu 11.10,
Kubuntu 11.10, Mepis 11 and Fedora 15. I installed
the LTS verson of Kubuntu 10 and haven't had any
problems with it. Does anyone have any idea what's
going on or how to fix it?