Ubuntu :: Natty Crashes To Black Screen?

Sep 1, 2011

I have had Natty installed for sometime now, and this happened once or twice before where it crashes all of a sudden to a black screen with some text on it, but I don't think there is anything particularly useful in the text. The problem is, in the last couple of days this has happened quite a few times, which shows that something is wrong.

My Computer's Specs:
CPU: AMD Phenom X6 1090T 3.2 GHz
RAM: 8 GB
MB: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H

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[Code].....

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here's the getinfo.sh dump

--glen201
== BEGIN uname -rmi ==
2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 x86_64 x86_64
== END uname -rmi ==

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