Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Intermittent freeze-up with Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:46:29PM +0000, Imran Chaudhry wrote: > Occaisonally my Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Desktop PC will freeze for no
> apparant reason. There does not seem to be a pattern to it. What will
> normally happen is that the window/app I am working in will turn grey
> as if taking a long time to respond. During this time the Desktop will
> not accept any input from me and I can even see the system monitor
> graph freeze up in the taskbar.
>
Window going grey says to me you're running compiz, and thus are using a
funky 3d driver. Maybe disable compiz first. Then if it still happens switch
video driver?
