Comment 16 for bug 1321623

Adding mine as well.

Dell Latitude E5420.

Used to run Mint 15. Was working fine. Never had these kind of problems. Sometimes it got slow, but after closing some Chromium tabs it was ok.

Installed Mint 17 now.
I'm doing web-development. Running several Chromium windows/tabs. Running node.js as well to do builds.
Now screen and keyboard are randomly freezing. I can still use the mouse, but I can't click anything.
I can switch to another screen using Ctrl+Alt+F5 and log in there.
If I do a 'startx' there and go back to Ctrl+Alt+F8 screen isn't frozen anymore and I can use the keyboard. Sound is gone though.

This works for me so far. But I still don't know what exactly is triggering this.
Well, and I can't listen to music anymore after it happens ;(

Cheers, Hannes