interesting sentence on intels graphics website: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2012.02.html
Additionally, the following stability patches are currently available in the drm-intel-fixes branch and should be available on the stable 3.2.x kernel after this release: Stability fixes for hard hangs on Ivy Bridge platform: those patches fix occasional hard-hangs on Ivy Bridge platforms when running GL workloads: patch 1, patch 2, patch 3, patch 4. perhaps ubuntu is missing these fixes... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993187 Title: ubuntu 12.04 64bit completely freezes frequently To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/993187/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs