I have the same problem on a HP Omnibook XE3. The following xorg.conf addition works great for me:
Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "exa" Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy" Option "ExaNoComposite" "false" EndSection ** Attachment added: "lspci.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29257744/lspci.txt -- [i830] font drawing corruption regression ubuntu intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293059 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ 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