Someone further up asked if anyone had a desktop affected by this problem. Yes.
HP Pavilian a1610n AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ x2 NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver version 173 OS 32-bit RAM 1 gb Upgraded from 11.04 to 12.04LTS. Only real modification done was to get rid of the crappy Unity desktop and revert to classic per below link, and this was done in 11.04 and remained functional when upgraded to 12.04LTS. http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2011/09/11/install-the-classic-desktop-in-ubuntu-11-10/ 11.04LTS was rock steady. Upgraded because I had hoped the problem with auto routing to random folders instead of last folder used had been addressed (which it hasn't). Running Firefox version Intermittent freezing of system when clicking on a link in Firefox. Eventually the mouse cursor unfreezes, but nothing else works except REISEB. No other keyboard command works. Problem happens from zero to several times a day. Had to report this bug on my older 11.04 machine. System keeps freezing while trying to make report. Worse, discovered it was freezing when clicking icons to get system information, which it has not done before. I cannot even access the system logs without freezing, so I cannot include the logs here. I'm going to try the upgraded driver options for NVIDIA. Don't know what else I can do at this point. I'm not versed well enough in upgrading the kernel per the above instructions. Will have to research that, but frankly I think reinstalling 11.04 makes better sense for me. Editorial comment: So far the Unity versions have been a total wash for me. I don't want "Ubuntu Windows 7" or "Ubuntu iPad" eye candy, I want Ubuntu 11.04. Unless some issues in Unity are addressed and fixed, I'll either have to revert to 11.04 or look into Lubuntu. Sorry to get on the soapbox, but the people writing Ubuntu have forgotten why it was created in the first place. If you're going to copy Windoze, at least give us an easy option similar to Windoze "Switch to Classic Desktop View" and/or make the Unity desktop user configurable. It's not a freaking iPad. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993187 Title: ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/993187/+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
