Comment 432 for bug 541511

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Christiansen <email address hidden>wrote:

> 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.

This is not true. The fix has been in the mainline kernel since 2.6.38-rc7.
So if you're running Maverick (which uses the .38 kernel), you already have
the patch. You just need to load the -intel driver instead of fbdev like you
mentioned. This is what I am doing right now in fact.