On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 22:06 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Greetings everybody, > > This is a newly installed Sid system that has 2 Samsung HD502HJ disks > of > 500GB and a Samsung SSD830 of 128GB. > > It has 2 graphics cards, Model:"nVidia G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2]". > > The reason it is a new install is because I have for years run the > NVidia closed source driver but they dropped support for these cards > to > Legacy-940.96, which has problems with the Sid level of the kernel > and > the gcc compiler. > So I tried to purge the NVidia driver and install nouveau, but was > unable to do so. So I did a new install which installed nouveau when > I > installed xorg. It looks and behaves just the way NVidia used to. > > I usually run on the HD502HJ disks but wanted to see how this new > install would run on the SSD830, so I ran a copy of the new system > on > that disk. > > I run google-chrome-beta as browser and never have any problems on > the > HD502HJ. But on the SSD830 I was getting lots of not responding > applications that had to be killed and not responding plugin. It > made > the system unusable. > > The only difference between the 2 systems is the disk on which they > run. > > I have tried to google for this error but was not too successful. > The > moment you enter 'nouveau' as a search term it thinks I am a French > speaker. > > Has anybody ever come across this strange behavior? What do you > suggest? > > Hugo. Your reasoning is a bit hard to follow. If the only difference is the SSD why do you suspect the graphics card at all? What exactly is the problem, is it something that is specific to Google Chrome? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se
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