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I'm experiencing quite frequent crashes in Unity: the screen turn white with stripes, but i can still move the arrow. this happens more ore less every hour: the only thing i'm able to do is switching to a raw terminal (ctrl+alt+F1) and reboot. The machine I'm running ubuntu on is equpped with:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller

Any hint on this? also other threads could be really useful! Thank you Daniele

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Do you have the backtrace from Xorg.log that you could post here? That might provide a quicker resolution to your issue. – Kory Wnuk May 28 '11 at 19:41
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in the interim you can save yourself a reboot by re-enabling CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE shortcut to restart X (this will dump you straight back at the login screen,) through Control Centre > Keyboard > Layouts > options > "Key Sequence to Kill the Z Server" – thomas michael wallace May 28 '11 at 19:42
Possible duplicate of: askubuntu.com/questions/38897/… – nickguletskii May 28 '11 at 19:45
thanks thomas couldn't say ctrl+alt+backspace wasn't working as all the rhel i use at work :) – dcapocelli May 28 '11 at 20:25
btw, restarting the X server ain't a solution: the screen stays black, event if apparently the server is running (i can hear the login sound) – dcapocelli May 30 '11 at 5:31

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Maybe is a Graphic Problem, you can try installing Unity2D and see if the problem resolved.

Tell me, if it work

for the video that you mention, interestingly, I found one of the comment said that it might be a graphic card problem.

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i also found out a video on youtube showing the same issue i'm experiencing: youtube.com/watch?v=7Y3NVw8cE54 – dcapocelli May 28 '11 at 20:23
seems quite strange to me, a hardware problem which came out just with the 11.04 update (running 10.04&10.10 everything was just fine), also running classic GNOME seems to eliminate the problem – dcapocelli May 29 '11 at 23:21

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