When it was happening to me, I believe an alternative was to login via SSH and kill the X11 desktop session (including the display driver). In my case it was usually quicker to login and just issue a reboot command.
FWIW, after getting the latest NVidia video driver for my three-screen system and not running "synergy", I haven't had the issue in a long time. But, I'm pretty aggressive about keeping updated - I switched to 12.04-x64 about two weeks after release, previous releases were similar. Dan On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Alex Robinson <[email protected]>wrote: > This just happened last night to my Lucid 64 ATI, dual monitor system > for the 1st time. And it happened again a few minutes ago. > > Given that this system has been running Lucid with these two monitors > for nearly a couple years without this problem, I vote for a very, very > recent update. > > Looking at Synaptic | File | History says the only suspicious looking > update (on the 13th) is a new linux image, 2.6.32-41. The rest of the > updates look like programs that would not be involved in low level > stuff. > > Since this problem pretty much freezes the system, does anyone know of a > better way to recover than the big red button? (By way of ssh, that is.) > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570151 > > Title: > mouse stuck jumping between screens > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/570151/+subscriptions > -- ***************** ************* *********** ******* ***** *** ** "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (Who can watch the watchmen?) -- from the Satires of Juvenal "I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them." -- Isaac Asimov (Author) ** *** ***** ******* *********** ************* ***************** -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570151 Title: mouse stuck jumping between screens To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/570151/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
