Thanks for the report. It appears the fact that old kernels prevented the freeze was just a red herring: without a recent kernel, the newer userspace driver couldn't enable some features related to the crash.
The real problem is probably in the Xorg driver. To narrow down when the problem appeared, I have updated my PPA with a slightly newer version. Could you try updating to the newer version, and report if that suffers from the freezing bug? If we can pinpoint where the bug first appeared, that will go a long way toward solving it. I'll step forward every time I get word that the current version appears to be working fine. When we find the first bad version, I'll look at the changes between the two versions. Oh, and for the sanity of anyone trying to read through this bug report, let's write what versions of libdrm2 and xserver-xorg-video-intel we're using whenever we report that the current PPA version is good or bad. (You can look at these in Synaptic) -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
