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NVIDIA Graphics Driver 180 Not Stable

April 25th, 2009
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Everything was fine when my ThinkPad T61p worked with the version 177 or 173 of NVIDIA Graphics Driver. When I got a notification that there was a new version 180 available, I was happy to upgrade it at once. Then problems came… sometimes my laptop got sudden black-screen crash on both Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04! Yes, it's black-screen, not Microsoft style blue-screen.

I found the following entries in /var/log/messages

Apr 25 12:35:56 hystp2 kernel: [ 5123.002987] Xorg[2927]: segfault at 5 ip b64df209 sp bfb99f60 error 4 in nvidia_drv.so[b6491000+3b4000]
Apr 25 12:35:56 hystp2 bonobo-activation-server (huangys-6077): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-n45hu1LoDE

Seems that keeping crash is caused by NVIDIA driver. I have to switch back to 173. Is there any better solution than back to an old version?

Years passed, lacking of hardware driver support is still a big problem for Linux promotion. Although NVIDIA driver has bugs, it supports Linux better than ATI. Speaking of ATI driver for Linux… it really sucks.

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