I am running peppermint 4 on an IBM Thinkpad X30 which has the Intel 82830M/MG graphics controller and I had the same problem of frequent black screens and hang ups. The workaround that Federico mentioned also worked for me. The way I implemented it was:
changing/making the xorg.conf by sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf and adding: Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "uxa" EndSection -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1186800 Title: [830 v3.7 regression] Video goes blank and system hangs (using an old kernel fix it) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1186800/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
