Ubuntu Desktop locks

[Lisa Kachold]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Ted Gould<ted at gould.cx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 12:46 -0700, Alexander Henry wrote:
>> This has been happening about once a day or every other day.  The
>> desktop simply locks up.  I discover that the cursor doesn't move, then
>> I try alt-tab, ctrl-alt-backspace, ctrl-alt-delete, clrl-alt-F*,
>> nothing.  Have to power cycle to break it.
>>
>> Any ideas?  It's a rather hard problem to search for.
>
> Intel graphics?  There's some big problems with the Intel drivers in
> 9.04.  They seem to happen less when disabling Compiz and other 3d
> graphics.  There's also an X edgers PPA that has updated drivers, but
> they're a little more bleeding edge.
>
>                --Ted

Mine locks up also.  It was fine right after install, but after update
it was schnerbed.  I found an article/bug for it and rolled back the
patch.

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