I've been getting this same issue starting about a week ago (~Oct. 1 2011) on Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity. I can't remember it occurring any other time except when I have Gnome Terminal maximized (which has often been the case recently), and it seems to happen about every few hours.
$ uname -a Linux 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:18:14 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $ sudo lspci -vvvv -s 01:00 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 08a8 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at 98000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Region 1: I/O ports at 2000 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at 90400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 90420000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Status: RQ=80 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW+ AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4 Command: RQ=32 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ AGP+ GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=x4 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Kernel driver in use: radeon Kernel modules: radeon, radeonfb -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586243 Title: Xorg freeze: "Failed to schedule IB" Radeon X1200 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/586243/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp