Comment 189 for bug 359392

I thought it might be worth mentioning that I installed the xorg crack pushers ppa repo a few days ago, (latest intel develoment snapshots), and it has reduced the frequency of the X lockups, I have only had one or two in the entire time that I have had them isntalled.....Also, there is no reason that you should lose data during these lockups since most of the system is infact running fine, just not the part that you can see with your own eyes......I have been successful in not losing any data that I know if through the careful use of the linux magic SysRq commands, which have no problem syncing the filesystem and rebooting it since the rest of the hardware is not locking up