Nvidia Restrcited Driver Issue... Crash???

[coetzewc]

enabled Canonical-supported OSS (main)
enabled Community-maintained OS (universe)
enabled Proprietary drivers for devices (restricted)
enamled SW restricted blah blah (multiverse)

under Other Software
enabled only Http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner

Updates
enabled (lucid-security)
enabled (lucid-updates)

Nothing else.

Now for the console stuff....
a few minutes....

[coetzewc]

On my quest
removed all nvidia stuff with synaptic and installed
nvidia-current
nvidia-settings
have to install nvidia-173-modaliases
have to install nvidia-96-modaliases
nvidia-common then

Did the console commands, and rebuit.
Then used System Administration hardware to enable NVIDIA driver again. That is the correct wat to enable it, yes??

Started FTP download from local repositry and X crashed agter some screensaver activity, I'm sure. I was able to get into console ALT F1 this time but it seems af my path was "enviromental variables" was lost, had to cd into filesestem to see what I could run. could not execute "top" to check what's holding up the processor but it seems as if the cpu was working overtime 100% utilisation because I could see after hard reset over heating/ high heat from bois sensor. This usually, tells me cpu worked to hard. This is more or less what my inital symtoms were and still is.

As I said with the Kernel (plymouth) driver, all seems stable but resolution is crap when browsing and screensaver is very slow.

Can GLX have something to do with this I red somewhere to revert to glx 1.2, current version is 1.4??? does this make sence or ring any bells? I don't know how to down grade this but could find out i'm sure. I'm trying my best to understand all this and I'm not a programmer so stabbing in the dark here?

[coetzewc]

Also worth a mention had none of these issues win 9.04 or 9.10.

[ephman]

ok about 24 hours now running with the addition of editing the boot line by adding video=vesa. can report my computer did crash. once. when i rebooted i went and pumped the powermizer setting up to maximum, and so far no crash. but i'm back on the system and doing my normal stuff now, and we'll see... will report back if we crash again. if you don't hear from me life is good and the powermizer max setting help something.

ephman

[ephman]

CrAsH!!!! ok it crashed. ;( had to restart x. sucks. plugged my google nexus one phone in the usb, and kaboom. going to search around for something to help fix this. oh well ;(

ephman