The bug can occur as early as 1 minute after boot up. I tried watching a video 
in mplayer. Several times the system locked up which I handled with a hard 
reset. Once I just started mplayer, skipped to the correct position in the 
video and could only watch 5 seconds more as the system froze again.
When the system locks up during video playback, not only the picture freezes 
but also the playback is stopped as I cannot hear any audio which I would be 
supposed to hear if the playback would continue (even with broken/frozen video 
output). On the other hand when just playing music in mplayer, a lockup does 
not stop mplayer from continious audio playback.
I therefore assume that the video playing mplayer is stopped due to its 
"feedback" (or possibly due to no response) from the XVideo extension (and the 
underlying driver). Since the mplayer in pure audio mode has no connection to 
the X11 system I can continue without problems.

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  Random Xorg freezes occuring hours after login

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