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Cinnamon crashes on web browsing or video watching #13844

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@randika32-SL

Distribution

Linux Mint 22.3

Package version

6.6.7

Graphics hardware in use

NVIDIA Corporation GK106 [GeForce GTX 660]

Frequency

Always

Bug description

Cinnamon crashes, it says i am in fallback mode, disabled extensions and 3rd party apps, dint work. need to logout & log in, or freezes completely that need reset button to restart the PC. either of this happens every time when using any web browser "Firefox or chromium base" to load multiple pages or heavy web page or giving any small stress that use graphic card.

NVIDIA Corporation GK106 [GeForce GTX 660]
uses "xserver-x-org-video-nouveau 1:1.0.17-2ubuntu0.1"
instead of NVIDIA 470 driver. that not showing on Deiver Manager, if uses the software manager to install it then driver does not install correctly; after installing complete, upon reboot for the driver to take effect, screen resolution is 640x480 and can not be increased, etc.

Steps to reproduce

just load multiple web pages or heavy web page. also an 1080p above video files.

Expected behavior

it should be able to install proper Nvidia drivers & work smoothly without crashing or freezing,

Additional information

crash report.txt

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