I also observe the same issue on my Thinkpad X40. The Intel driver version is 2.5.1 with mesa3d 7.2 and xorg 7.4. This is not on an Ubuntu system, which I think would indicate that the issue is not distribution specific, but rather indicates a bug in the driver.
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