Stubborn Intel Graphics Bug Haunts Ubuntu 12.04

jones_supa writes "The current long-term support version of Ubuntu (12.04) has been experiencing a remarkably tough-to-crack and widely affecting bug related to laptops using an Intel graphics solution. When the lid is closed, every now and then the desktop freezes and only the mouse cursor can be moved. Compiz is usually found hung in the process, switching to a VT afterwards works. The Freedesktop guys are also informed. Have Slashdotters been bitten by this bug and possibly could offer some detective work to help the OSS community find and apply the correct fix?"

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Re:What they are actually reporting an Issue.

[hairyfeet]

I am just sitting here literally gobsmacked. I mean here you all are, having seriously NASTY problems...yet you put up with it or do the distro tango....WTF people? Why are you not on their forums having a fucking shitfit? Why are you not telling the devs to stop acting like douchebags and quit fucking with the internals so shit isn't constantly fucking breaking like this?

This is why I gave up after nearly 4 years of fighting the damned thing and went back to Windows, and if someone doesn't want Windows I point them toward a Mac. How is ANYTHING ever gonna get better if you just let the devs crap all over the internals any damned time they feel like it and you just take it like an abused housewife...WTF people? Why aren't you royally pissed? Why are you not nailing their balls to the wall? if this were any other product on the planet you would be having massive boycotts and giving them hell. You know that free broken shit is STILL broken shit, correct?

I just don't get it. Religious dogma is the only reason i can think of for putting up with such obvious douchebag behavior, because its obvious the product is NOT working as intended and from the huge list we see here of people with serious issues is not suitable for purpose.