It seems like three questions need to be answered:
* What is the root cause?
* When will it be fixed?
* What are the workarounds in the meantime?
For workarounds: this bug is specific to certain Intel graphics chipsets, right? If the list of bad chipsets can be determined, then the installer/updater could "blacklist" those and automatically add the i915.modeset=0 to the grub configuration if necessary -- correct? That's probably not as great of a solution as actually fixing the problem, but at least it would make these offending computers usable without "user hacking".
It seems like three questions need to be answered:
* What is the root cause?
* When will it be fixed?
* What are the workarounds in the meantime?
For workarounds: this bug is specific to certain Intel graphics chipsets, right? If the list of bad chipsets can be determined, then the installer/updater could "blacklist" those and automatically add the i915.modeset=0 to the grub configuration if necessary -- correct? That's probably not as great of a solution as actually fixing the problem, but at least it would make these offending computers usable without "user hacking".