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[Russell Robinson <russellr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xorg

The computer is running 9.04 with all current updates installed.

The Open Source Nvidia driver worked pretty well for a couple of days.
However, I received screen artifacts inside VMWare guests (in
particular, Fedora 7).  The artifacts were little horizontal black lines
randomly placed on the screen.

I switched to using version 180 of the proprietary driver and this fixed
the artifacts.

However, I've now had the VMware F7 guest crash completely - just stop.

I've also had the computer completely hang on a number of occasions.

The screens continue to display what was there, but the system is dead
otherwise.

I've now upgraded to version 185 of the proprietary driver and will
monitor the situation (artifacts are still gone, btw).

Of course, this might be nothing to do with the video driver, but that's
my strong suspicion.

If I get another crash, I'll update this report and switch back to the
Open Source driver for further information gathering.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu18
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-14-generic (buildd@yellow) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #47-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 25 01:19:55 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic x86_64

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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nvidia - suspected system hangs, vmware problems
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/409656
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