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Re: [Bug 379228] Re: screen starts flashing and freezes or crashes X
i sorry i dont know whats going on in these emails....the problem i had was
in 9.04 not 9.10 and when i upgraded to 9.10 it went away...thank you
though...
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:08 PM, James D. Hasselman <
jhass840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bryce, would you like me to file a new bug for the issue I experienced?
> If so, I will do so using the data I posted here previously.
>
> --
> screen starts flashing and freezes or crashes X
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379228
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-180” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in Fedora: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xorg
>
> My screen will flash black repeatedly and the mouse and sound will freeze.
> Sometimes it will only flash a couple times and come back to normal, but
> often it will keep flashing many times and remain frozen until x crashes.
> While it's frozen I can't ctrl-alt-f1 to another terminal. I've only
> noticed it happening when I'm using firefox, but that's the vast majority of
> my computer use so I'm not sure that's relevant. Sometimes when it comes
> back from a flashing episode the window will be scrambled to some extent.
> There's no specific event that I'm aware of that triggers this.
>
> I tried to include everything you'd need in this report, please let me know
> if there's more that's necessary. (Unfortunately I'd have to wait until it
> happens again to gather that, and it's unpredictable)
>
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x79) [0x80c3019]
> 1: [0xb7f49400]
> Saw signal 11. Server aborting.
> (II) UnloadModule: "kbd"
> (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
> (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
> (II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Close
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
> (II) PS/2 Mouse: Close
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> (II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Close
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> (II) Video Bus: Close
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> (II) Video Bus: Close
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> (II) Video Bus: Close
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> (II) Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM): Close
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
>
>
> tsaylor@tsaylor-laptop:/var/log$ lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu 8.10
> Release: 8.10
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu3
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/home/username/.bin/:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/:/usr/local/flex/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.27-14-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version
> 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu12) ) #1 SMP Wed Apr 15 18:59:16 UTC 2009
>
> SourcePackage: xorg
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686
> xkbcomp:
>
> [lspci]
> 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960
> Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
> Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01f3]
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M
> GS [10de:0427] (rev a1)
> Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01f3]
>
>
--
~Jimmy Underwood
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screen starts flashing and freezes or crashes X
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379228
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