Comment 141 for bug 355155

I'll wade back in.

alt-sysrq-reisub doesnt work for me when the computer freezes. nor does ctr-alt-backspace. alt-sysrq-k takes me to a black screen where i can do nothing but still perform a hard re-set. troubling.

i tried enabling proposed updates, and installing the new xorg drivers, and it made no difference.

freezes happen to me when im hot-plugging peripherals (usb mice, my laptops power cable, that sort of thing), doing heavy internet stuff or making swift uses of compiz - flitting quickly between windows.

having read on canonicals homepage that turning compiz off helps the issue, i have switched back to metacity as my windows manager (though im also contemplating moving to openbox now). having moved to metacity, ive been freeze free for almost a week now (and i only used to get freezes twice a week). touch wood!

the only things i miss from compiz are: scale (though ive replaced that with skippy-xd), and transparency (to peek behind active windows). transparency i can live without.

this is a showstopper-bug though! where are the developer resources to fix it?