Possible ubuntu video driver bug

[Stephen]

Something to consider in some CMOS you can have settings that choose a
preferred video card, and sometimes on-board video is not disabled
fully. some Intel boards are notorious for this.

Look in your settings and see what you can find. this may help. I had
one helluva time with PCI-e graphics and Ubuntu for a while back in
the 8.xx days with this.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/10/2011 16:10, Dazed_75 wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Thanks
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>>
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