Comment 96 for bug 127101

I see what you are saying - i810 is an inferior driver to intel, crash issues aside. However, at the same time, shipping a driver known to hard crash randomly upon doing such common things as logging out or suspending to RAM seems irresponsible.

 I feel that Ubuntu should go back to i810 as default for the Gutsy release - it worked in Feisty, and while it may have less features than intel, at least it doesn't hard crash regularly. *However*, Ubuntu could then push as an update to Gutsy a stub package which pushes the users to the intel driver once it is free of critical crashes. That way, we'll get the best of both worlds - Gutsy will ship with a stable driver by default rather than an unstable driver, and we could switch over with the stub package once the intel driver is fixed up to be as stable as i810.