Comment 266 for bug 351186

I understand people's frustration that this is not looking likely to make it into Karmic given the time remaining, but instead of fretting about it please realize there is still a window of opportunity for inclusion, so it would be much more productive to go find hardware or friends with hardware running drivers beyond fglrx, have them test the patch and give results here. We will need test results both against KDE and GNOME.

In case you don't understand my caution - this patch is to fix a problem specific to fglrx but it is against xorg-server so affects code used by ALL drivers. Given that there have been confirmed reports about memory leaks occurring from this patch, my concern is that this could potentially introduce memory leaks for all users. If this were to occur, it might improve things for a few users but would degrade Ubuntu for the vast majority, which personally I think would be unfortunate.