Ubuntu
beryl-core package

Screen freezes at random times for about 10 - 20 sec before it continues

Bug #104114 reported by Anders Häggström
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beryl-core (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: beryl

As the summary; Screen freezes at random times for about 10 - 20 sec before it continues. Sometimes it doesn't come back alive. The only way out of that is a hard reboot.
Mouse is always alive during the freeze, independent of if it is a temporary freeze or a hard freeze.

The randomness occur mostly at start of an "eye-candy"-effect (typically minimize, close and start of a window).

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G (BIOS: F9)
RAM: 512MB DDR2 @ 667MHz
Graphics adapter: nVidia GeForce 6100 (64MB shared from RAM) with "nvidia-glx"-driver 1.0.9755

The freezing symptoms disappear when I turn of beryl.

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Anders Häggström (hagge) wrote :

Ohh, and I forgot.. I run Ubuntu 6.10, AMD64 with "2.6.17-11-generic #2 SMP" kernel.
Processor is AMD X2 3800+ (65W edition)

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rax_m (rax-m) wrote :

I get that too... altho' I never have a hard freeze, normally just a soft one.

I'm on an intel core 2 duo, Toshiba laptop. Nvidia 128MB 7600 go (i think).
This happens regardless of whether I'm running thru gnome or xfce.

Also on Ubuntu Edgy.

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Didier L (l-farquaad) wrote :

Hi,

We are several on the French forums to have a similar problem sometimes (for me it is very rare, and I don't have to do a hard reset). This issue is combined with another which happens very often, the screen is blinking: for about every 30s (but it is variable), the screen becomes black during perhaps 10 ms, which is which is quite unpleasant... Do you have that problem too ?

I'm under Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on a Zepto Znote 6615, nVidia GeForce 7600 (512Mb RAM), nvidia-glx-new driver 9755.

Someone reported that installing the new beta driver fixed the problem, but I couldn't test for now...

French topic: http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=981893#p981893

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote : Beryl has been removed from Gutsy

Beryl is replaced by Compiz Fusion, so has been removed from Gutsy.

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