System freeze (Nvidia / Flash)

[Basil Chupin]

On 12/02/12 14:12, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Thomas F. Duellmann<t.duellmann at gmx.de>  wrote:
>> Thanks for you fast response!
>>
>> Unfortunately even that didn't work.
>> I tried nearly all key combinations with Strg + Alt but nothing
>> happened.
>> After a (quite long) while the screen turned black and the message
>> "Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done." appeared.
>> After several minutes of waiting I did a hard reset.
>>
>> While being frozen the system responded to ping requests from another
>> pc. So the system itself seemed to run properly. Something seems to
>> 'mess up' the X-Server or anything else UI-related.
>> Can anybody give me a hint how to investigate the source of this problem
>> or would you recommend to just do a fresh install?
> I think it is an NVIDIA driver problem. The driver that comes with
> Ubuntu 11.10 (280.13), supports your graphics card.
>
> If you use an older Ubuntu version, try downloading version NVIDIA
> driver 285.0509.


I wonder if using nVidia configuration and then saving the settings 
would help because the settings would then be saved to xorg.conf (and be 
included at boot time)?

BC

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