Comment 12 for bug 556044

ha ha!
fixed that too. Installed Java 7.
I know that my workaround introduced a different bug for my specific HW, but here is the solution to that too. Incase some else out there is also going crazy:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7032388

Note: current java7 has to be installed manually from:
http://download.java.net/jdk7/
I used these instructions to make it active:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=297770