Comment 51 for bug 351990

I have been using 2.6.29.1 for a couple of days and the general impression is: better though far from good. The freezes just seem to be much less frequent (they still happen on my machine). It might be possible to work several days in a row without a single freeze with this version.

As this phenomenon is not ATI-specific (I have an Intel i915, for instance), I am skeptical whether it could be a driver issue. Still, it may be possible that these are just various issues having common symptom - a freeze. Well, perhaps it's not a bug but a feature - a sort of Win98 First Edition stability mode (they might call it "Win9x Effects") :-]

2.6.29.2 is next in the line.