seems like it never fails... did a fresh install of 9.04 & 2 things (always the same 2 things...lol..) are giving me trouble-

adobe flash starts playing video & hangs... once this happens it won't let me go to a different web page in firefox... the only way to do anything is to close firefox out & restart it. seems to kick out when the sound starts playing- wondering if flash doesn't like pulse audio. have tried downloading from adobe's website & tried the one in the package manager- no luck.

nvidia- currently using the 180 driver with it switched to "nv" in my xorg.conf file. if I have it set to 'nvidia' it randomly locks up xscreen. where this gets interesting is that I'm using ubuntu studio (the realtime kernel) I've read that the 173 driver won't work with a realtime kernel & the 96 driver doesn't like the new xscreen (..did they fix that- lol?) my graphics card is a geforce 7200 gs

-anyone got any ideas?

thanks

I can't comment on the Flash situation, however the nVidia thing:

1) If you are using the 'nv' driver in your xorg.conf, you do realize that you are NOT using the 180.xx.xx driver, right? 'nv' is the Linux open source driver version, and has nothing really to do with the nVidia binarydriver download.

2) I have two 7300/7300GS cards in my computer (PCI-E versions, to be clear) and I am currently using the latest 185.18.14 driver for them, and it works wonderfully, no problems at all that I know of..

3) I am not sure if ANY of the nVidia driver binaries will work *perfectly* or even somewhat correctly, with the -rt kernels. You may want to have a cruise through the NV-News forum, and see if you can find any help there if you haven't already.

nVidia forum: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/foru...aysprune=&f=14

Cheers,
Sasha

1) switched to 'nv' because 'nvidia' locks up. install nvidia 180 via synaptic package manager. ( i.e. packages nvidia-glx-180, nvidia-180-modalalias, nvidia-common, nvidia-180-kernel-source, etc.) I realize I'm not using the nvidia 180 driver- that's the point- it locks up X.

2) about 185.. will it interfere when synaptic package manager when it does kernel updates? i.e. I don't want to fart around reinstalling drivers every time synaptic sends a kernel update.

3) so far- what I've read is that 173 doesn't work with a realtime kernel. 96 had to be updated to work with the new version of X. (I haven't found out yet if that ever happened. was using ubuntu studio 8.04 (did a clean install of 9.04..) when I was using 8.04.. the driver I *believe* I was using 96.

so my questions are:

A) if I install 185 from nvidia... will it bugger up my system upon kernel upgrades?
B) did they ever upgrade 96 to work with the newest version of X?

I'm proceeding with caution here.. because (to make a long story short...) have already had to dealt with many nvidia headaches thus far- don't want to get things all buggered up again. LOL-

thanks for replying-

I haven't used Ubuntu, and therefore the Synaptic manager for a LONG time, so I am going to refrain from trying to guess what a driver upgrade might do to Synaptic.

What I will say, is AFAIK, the nVidia proprietary driver, when you upgrade it, downgrade it, change kernels, or whatever, on ANY Linux, the driver needs to be re-installed.

You might be able to make Synaptic cooperate, or might not-- again, I don't want to lead you astray, so I won't guess.

I hope another *regular user* of Ubuntu can shed some more light on this angle of it for you!

Finally: there is no guarantee that a newer nVidia driver will address your problem; did you happen to search the nVnews forum, and see if there are any reports that apply to your driver and/or video card and/or Ubuntu? And, you can read the change-logs for each driver release, on the nVidia download page-- possible your issue will have a mention in there.

Best of success,
Sasha

If you install the driver manually, just make sure that the nvidia driver from the repository has been removed from your system. You should also make sure to intall dkms, which should (never failed for me but you never know) automatically rebuild your nvidia module any time the kernel is updated.

I think that the root of your problem is really that your are using the realtime kernel. I think you'll find out if you ask on the nvidia forums.

thanks for the info- got a couple of things to take care of- but as soon as I have a chance.. I'll give it a go.

sigh- used the realtime kernel + the nvidia drivers before on 8.04 & it worked. LOL.

Have you tried EnvyNG? It is in the repositories and will download and setup the latest version of nvidia. There won't be a problem with upgrading kernels.

Paul