Comment 126 for bug 564376

@Alex Deucher: Yes, the modern operating systems and hardware are complex beasts and I surely understand that some bugs may be hard to track down. The point is however that there wasn't a systematic effort to resolve this particular issue except for some "there is a random problem X described in ticket Y, which may be the reason for your troubles too, so why don't you try the solution proposed there". By the way I tried the change proposed by Michel Dänzer in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38694 , but unfortunately it doesn't seem to help either.
I am clueless about the kernel internals, but the manifestations of this bug seem to be consistent with the hypothesis that there is something wrong with the "radeon" driver. It seems like something locks the system for long periods of time and the other time sensitive modules "freak out". On my laptop the problem became even more pronounced when I swapped the "1440x900" LCD panel with a "1600x1200" one.