Managing locked up desktops

[Nicholas Wheatley]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:36:23AM -0500, Frank wrote:
> In relation to my video problems under 21 Beta....
> 
> is there ANY way to deal with the locked up desktop other
> than hitting the power switch? When it's locked-up, ctrl-alt-F
> keys don't work..ctrl-alt-del doesn't work...and the last resort
> alt-sysreq doesn't work. I am really afraid of totally messing up
> the FS to the point where I am forced to remain in Debian.

If xorg is using the Intel driver, the only solution is just to uninstall the driver and let xorg use nomodeset.

There are a couple of bugs reported and not sorted yet.