I tested the proposed driver (xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.6.3-0ubuntu4pitti1_i386.deb) on a i855 chipset with DRI=false, and didn't notice any degradation. I wasn't impacted by this bug in first place, though. In a side note, I noticed some visual artifacts (patches of background popping up in front) after a suspend-to-ram but I already had those artifacts with the previous version.
I tested the proposed driver (xserver- xorg-video- intel_2. 6.3-0ubuntu4pit ti1_i386. deb) on a i855 chipset with DRI=false, and didn't notice any degradation. I wasn't impacted by this bug in first place, though. In a side note, I noticed some visual artifacts (patches of background popping up in front) after a suspend-to-ram but I already had those artifacts with the previous version.