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Vlad, thank you for taking an interest in helping. We have followed the upstream bug report (freedesktop-bugs #27187 at the top of this page) and we know about the fix.
>"Anyway the i855GM issues have just been radically fixed by Daniel Vetter, you can find the patch and the complete kernel
sources archive here:http://
Two key words here are radically and kernel. Daniel has rewritten some parts of the kernel in order to achieve this and the fix is based on will be kernel 2.6.35 which is much newer than what is in Lucid. So the two problems are: 1. The fix changes a lot of things and could lead to a regression for others. Not something we want right before the release of Lucid. 2. The fix doesn't necessarily apply on the current Lucid kernel. After the release, we may be able to backport, test, and update if it doesn't lead to problems for anyone else.
> If this doesn't help, (I don't know much about it but I've thought maybe this could be the solution): make alternative xorg + intel-driver for 855gm (which works) as a manual installation available for those who have such hardware.
It is the kernel that needs an alternative version, changing xorg will not fix this. It's not too hard to compile, and I would already have done this if I had a i386 installation of Lucid available.