Comment 43 for bug 447892

@mitropaman: we have the same hardware (mine is a clone of yours), but there is no solution right now. I guess that these bugs will be fixed by intel developers sooner or later but it might be a few months, a year, or never, since this hardware is going to be unsupported because of age...

Yes, it's not nice, since our laptop has always ran smoothly, but that's reality :(

Also, I am not able to get a working Xorg development stack running because of other kernel KMS issues regarding the i915 implementation...so debugging is harder.

Only workaround for now is to use the old drivers and to boot a kernel without KMS