Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #195051
  2. Comment #31

Comment 31 for bug 195051

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In , Kris (kris333) wrote :

I can confirm this with Ubuntu Hardy (current as of 2008/03/21) on two systems, both using the xserver-xorg-video-ati driver. One is a ThinkPad T40 with the ATI Mobility 9000 (ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000]), and the other is a workstation with an ATI X600 (ATI Technologies Inc RV380 [Radeon X600 (PCIE)]).

Both exhibit the freezing behaviour described above, usually leaving only the mouse cursor active. The system is unresponsive to mouse clicks or keyboard events other than Alt+SysRq which can be used to "safely" restart the system.

I haven't been able to reproduce this bug with any reliability. It seems to happen randomly when using Compiz.