[ILUG] Computer freezes

[Andres Jimenez]

From my experience, both nvidia and nouveau drivers are quite buggy
(or could be Nvidia cards).

I tried every single solution offered in the web, but I kept suffering
random X crashes.

I bought a cheap ATI and all problems were gone.

Cheers,

Andrés

2011/11/17 kevin <lists at cybercolloids.net>:
> I have a small network where all the clients run Ubuntu Maverick. They
> all run fine apart from one computer that, about once or twice a day,
> just freezes. The mouse still moves around but you can't click on
> anything and the keyboard does not respond.
>
> I recently changed the graphics driver from nvidia to nouveau but still
> the same problem. The hard drive looks OK - no smart warnings, memcheck
> seems OK and the processor is quite cool. The graphics card is quite
> warm - about 50C and one of the cpu cores seems to run about 50% even
> when nothing is happening and gdm has stopped.
>
> Any ideas or should I dump it and install Debian, which is long term
> plan anyway.
>
> Kevin.
>
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Andres Jimenez