Same problem on an ASUS Z9200 laptop. Display is ATI Mobility X700 (PCIE). Extra fresh plain-vanilla Gnome 8.10 started to freeze. Getting it up to date didn't help.
Seems to happen in the middle of anything. E. g. dropping user switching (top right) menu down. Also, caught it in the act of dimming a window. So, I'm trying running with no Appearance Visual Effects. Me thinks that's what your 'compiz' secret word means :-) Most regretfully because of Bug #202456. Also, Xsorg may happen to do bad initialization. The screen is barely readable. Full of interference-like, jerking horizontal lines. Only thing to do is leaving the session or GDM screens. There seems to be no hardware fault, Windows seems fine. But this laptop is a gift from France to a Belgian relative of mine. I'm just installing & configuring, (& _trying_ to promote) Ubuntu. So, I'll try to call them and find out and _try to_ follow up. This not being e-mail, I can't delay sending. Not being able to run for 1 hour deserves Importance High. Plz have a look at Bug #306444 (X700 too & neat data) -- [x700] server looping and system hang (DRILock+0xfa) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295904 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
