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[Zero <pupp3t.mast3r@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually I have been working perfectly with driver version 185 from
Brandon Snider:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/brandonsnider/ppa/ubuntu.

However due to the capacitor fail I changed my card to a brand new
9600gt from biostar which is working perfectly VDPAU to! Even ram is
detected ok and no doubled, it is 512mb ddr3 and nvidia-settings shows
512 so It is consistent now.

By the way I also updated drivers (Same from Brandom Snider) for the AMD
computer running with the zogis 7300gt and no freezes so far max uptime
is 2 days... it is my family's pc so they don't like to have it powered
all the time but 2 days is more than enough for them. (common usage,
firefox, flash, flash hd and non hd video, hd and non hd video
(mplayer), Skype Video and openoffice apps).

What still puzzles-me is the capacitor thing:

1 It was faulty starting off, but if it was then why drivers 173 and
prior delayed so long to trigger or even didn't. In contrast 177 or 180
that triggered so quickly.

2 If the fault was the driver the it might be brand-model-driver-
voltages-etc. specific, only certain combinations might trigger it

3 Then might a driver can lead to the component fail on certain
circumstances if it is the case then I suppose the driver wasn't dealing
with proper hardware so I am suspecting from-factory tweaks and tunings
in the card that somehow exceeded nvidia's safety standards and
recommendations, I mean... if that thing wasn't solid It might have
leaked over plenty of my computer parts damaging them.

I still wouldn't call this bug closed although it seems that new 185
driver version fixes it, If the others having the same issues confirm
that the drivers are working and fixes the freeze then go ahead.

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random x server freeze (nvidia)
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