Comment 3 for bug 18406

(In reply to comment #2)
> hoary or breezy? we have a *lot* of fixes from alanh in breezy already which
> ought to fix this.

I get the same symptoms on an IBM Netvista, with Hoary or Breezy. In fact, with
Debian Sarge as well..... It also happens on rarer occasions simply starting an
applicattion. I do not believe it to be a memory issue, as the same machine has
run versions of Gentoo and Fedora (and Microsoft's latest) without any similar
issues. I'm fairly certain it is specific to the packaging of xorg somehow. I
have replaced network cards, memory, cables, all to no avail, and am convinced
now it is software related. To be more specific on the nature of the freeze, I
would add that the system is not frozen in a classic sense, it still has some
responsiveness, but no new process will launch once xorg seems to hold things in
place. I've run resource monitors overnight, which left on show no change. The
clock stops updating on the screen. I've disabled power management and ACPI
support. Can't isolate what is tieing the system up. P4 2000.

Latest update, I replaced video driver i810 in xorg.conf with vesa, ran
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, and rebooted. Same symptoms, so it's not just
the driver....

Ben