Problem with new install of Mint?

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[SOLVED]Problem with new install of Mint?

Well i recently rebuilt my PC (clean up, swap some components out to make it quieter etc.) and in the process i changed the HDD, so i took the chance to do a fresh installation of Mint (i'll get round to dual-booting Arch in a bit).

Anyway, most of it works great and it's even better than i remember it apart from a tendency for the whole screen to randomly go black for about a second. This seems to happen when i go on a site with flash, like Youtube, but it will happen again when i close it. It seems to me a bit like the blank screen you get when changing the resolution, which might mean it's a problem with Compiz or the drivers (proprietary nVidia), however the option to change back to Nouveau is no longer in the Additional Drivers program (which i just opened and the screen went black, maybe it's a resource allocation thing?) and since it's not Arch i wouldn't know how else to do it without harming something else.

Other than that i'm stumped, ideas? Thanks


EDIT: Solved, turned out to be a problem with the nVidia driver - switching to version 173 fixed it.

 

[Huw]

EDIT: Solved, turned out to be a problem with the nVidia driver - switching to version 173 fixed it.

Heh. That's what I was going to suggest. Adobe stuff is bloody awful on Linux unfortunately, so it will only work without hiccup if absolutely everything is just right. The driver is the first thing I would have looked at in your case.