Comment 0 for bug 1257709

Linux Mint Cinnamon 16 64 bit.

The Desktop freezes randomly:

During the freeze it seems, that the desktop is unable to update its contents and process keyboard/mouse input;
The respond to movement, and even change the arrow shape when hovering on different parts of the screen. The applications are still running in the background.
No keyboard combination can affect the display; what works is only the Ctrl+Alt+Fx (and I guess SysRq combinations too, but never tested).

No usefull information can be get from the /var/log except from the enigmatic entry in Xorg.0.log:

    AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch

which _never gets paired_ with "AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch"

To reproduce:
1. Install the Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon 64 bit on Asus N56VZ notebook; (https://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/N56VZ/#specifications; I use the Intel® Core™ i7 3610QM Processor variety with 16 GB RAM).
2. Do something processor-intensive, such as compiling the Wesnoth ;-).
3. Perhaps you need to use VirtualBox - I use it all the time and it is difficult for me to test anything without it. But during the freeze I can successfully suspend running machines from the console, so I suspect the problem doesn't concern the VBox.

It doesn't guarantee that each time the processor is busy the error occurs, but I think everytime it did, the processor was busy compliling something. The compliation itself was never affected.

Some extra details, just in case:
I use no swap (I still can't get it working with hibernation and encrypted home folder, but that is a different story)
The system uses MBT, / is on BTRFS partition, /boot on smal EXT2 partition, and obligatory FAT32 EFI partition mounted on /boot/efi.

please help...