Comment 4 for bug 1415154

The release notes of 0149 do not state any significant fixes which could be related. Since this is a physically remote desktop machine I'm administering, I don't have physical access to the machine before February 4rd.

The main user of the machine is a non-technical person and has become very discontent and seriously considering switching to Windows (There were no such issues on their older hardware and Kubuntu 12.04). In fact the current 14.04 installation is so broken (this machine also experiences https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1412671) that I had to instruct the user not to log out / reboot / shut down / switch terminals / unplug the monitor / lock the KDE session. ;(

Can you propose any workarounds? Disabling i915 in kernel and Intel video drivers?