Bug#525231: X freezes

[Soeren Sonnenburg <sonne@debian.org>]

Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Version: 2.7.0-1
Severity: grave

I am seeing the exact same symptoms of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359392
also since the recent upgrade of xorg/mesa/intel packages in debian (1-2
weeks ago).

These symptoms are:

- random frequent lockups of xorg (one may still move the mouse cursor but the
  display is frozen)
- this happens with at least UXA and EXA (with and without KMS)
- still happens when using xserver-xorg-video-intel version 2.6.3
  indicating that these lockups might not be intel only or occur only on
  interplay with certain mesa/xorg versions.
- it appears that the system underneath is still running fine (ssh/ping
  works)
- there is currently no known fix not even a workaround. It does not
  help to disable 3d (i.e. by using plain metacity instead of compiz)