Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #365776
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 365776

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Kyle Beauchamp (kyleabeauchamp) wrote :

I disabled DRI to fix the problem. I suspect that this is not an acceptable long-term solution--for example, my display brightness control is no longer working.

IMHO, pushing the 9.04 release before addressing these issues (broken driver support for one of the most common laptop display adapters) was a poor move. As I recall, the two issues that were the downfall of Windows Vista were 1. Poor Driver Support. 2. Poor Performance on common hardware.

What do you know, it looks like Ubuntu is following Microsoft's lead on this one...

My fix was to add the following line to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf under the devices section:
 Option "DRI" "off"