I also have a GeForce 8600 GT. I recently reverted to version 290.10 of nvidia's binary driver because of Bug #973096 (random Xorg crashes.)
The reversion also seems to have solved my problems powering off the system and changing to tty. It might be a coincidence, though.
I also have a GeForce 8600 GT. I recently reverted to version 290.10 of nvidia's binary driver because of Bug #973096 (random Xorg crashes.)
The reversion also seems to have solved my problems powering off the system and changing to tty. It might be a coincidence, though.