[Bug 353413] [NEW] leaving fullscreen stuff freezes ubuntu 8.10

[Fulano]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

Leaving fullscreen applications (firefox, screensaver, videos, youtube,
etc) only shows wallpaper with nothing else. It's NOT locked (mouse
moves)!

It happens at least once a day.

The most common example: When I move the mouse to leave screensaver, i
see my wallpaper and my mouse cursor moving, but nothing else appears!

Even if I don't really leave fullscreen mode (for example, by just
pressing ALT-TAB during a fullscreen video to change to another window)
also causes the problem.

It's NOT completely locked (the mouse cursor moves).
It's not a Kernel Panic (caps lock does NOT blink/flash). I have installed a package that, whenever I have a Kernel Panic, it reports it to launchpad. But it is NOT reporting anything because it is NOT a kernel panic.

The screensaver "Blank Screen" is better than the 3D ones, but even
using blank screen, i get this problem about once a day.

I tried the following things, but nothing worked:

- acpi=off, acpi=noirq, pci=noacpi
- changing my wireless to 802.11 b (ipw 4965 bug: see intrepid release notes)
- changing compiz to it's default values
- ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't work
- ctrl-alt-F1 doesn't work
- Alt-SysRq-B doesn't work
- AltGr-SysRq-B doesn't work
- Updating Ubuntu 8.10 doesn't work (i have all updates installed)

When this problem happens, the only solution is to SSH using another
computer and reboot.

My Video Card (lspci | grep VGA):
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

I'm using Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10, with Compiz in Gnome, with default
options.

Thanks,
Thiago.

** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

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