This seems to be resolved in Lucid. My Thinkpad X40 running Lucid can connect with no problem to my headless server running Hardy. I didn't test it that extensively, but it's been running for over 10 minutes without a crash, and I ran an IRC program and a server update.
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- XNEST crashes in X_PolyFillRectangle with error config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296122 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs