Comment 431 for bug 541511

Since this bug, as Geir Ove Myhr points out, is solved upstream, all we just need now, is that the Intel driver is enabled by default in Xorg in Oneiric (11.10) again - instead of the now default simple, featureless and faulty frame buffer driver.

I've successfully been using Uneiric Alpha 1 & 2 and alle updates in between and after, with the intel xorg driver on i855 boxes - enabled by the Maverick workaround "Manually enable Intel driver" found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Mavericki8xxStatus.

As the upstream bugfixes is apparently only applied to the latest kernels (3.0) and demands drivers from xserver-xorg-video-intel never than 2.14 (2.15 is in Oneiric right now), reenabling the intel driver will only work for Oneiric (11.10) at present time.

Right now the bug is seems only "solved" by not using the Intel driver in Lucid, Maverich and Natty, which may be the best way for those releases, if the patches can't be applied to those kernels and and xorg drivers.

But for Oneiric the patches are implicit and the fixed Intel driver only requires to be enabled by the Xorg packages, and wouldn't the Alpha period best suited for that purpose ?.