I have also had this bug for some time. I have the 180 nvidia driver and compiz running on Ubuntu 9.04. Dual monitors too.
Symptoms are, screens flicker then go black. Keyboard is unresponsive but sometimes mouse will still move. The latest time this happened I was able to login from another machine. Everything was still running. Initially the 'Xorg' process was taking up 100% CPU then it calmed down to about 5%. I was able to switch to text mode and back once with Ctrl-Alt-F1. Then both monitors lost their signal all together. Personally, I think it is buggy Nvidia drivers. They don't have a good track record. I've heard rumor that Nvidia's main reason for having their binary only HAL driver is to hide the fact that it tries to work around a number of hardware bugs. Just Open-Source the whole driver and fix the bugs. This happens on my system a couple of times a week with regular use. Very annoying. -- Display flickering then system crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368659 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
