I feel your pain, Jerry :( It looks like the patch fd.o is queued up to go into Linus's branch shortly but hasn't made it yet [1]. I'd guess that without any hangups, it will go into the 2.6.31 release. Conveniently, that's also the kernel version targeted for the final Karmic release as well [2].
If you're feeling adventurous and want to compile the kernel yourself, check out [3]. You would want to use the git source and get the patch in from there. I was also able to find (while looking up that patch) a reference to it in the #ubuntu-x IRC channel [4] (search for 07f4f3e8a24138ca2f3650723d670df25687cd05). There's a lot of signal in that log, so it would be a good one to be familiar with. So I guess the short of it is to wait for the fix to make it in. To get a better idea of how the patch is being handled, you should ask on #ubuntu-x. [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21415#c28 [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/specs/KernelKarmicKernelDecisionSession [3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile [4] http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2009/05/28/%23ubuntu-x.txt -- [i830] Fonts smear after a while of use (Hardy->Intrepid regression) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video-intel. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp