About 3 months ago, I 'upgraded' to Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04). I have a Thinkpad T61 which has the Intel 965 GM card. Apparently, a lot changed in the Xorg intel driver around that time, which basically led to very buggy Xorg driver which had lots of memory leak issues and performance problems. For a long time, I have been trying various things to get rid of these problems. The problems themselves have been quite severe, ranging from rendering problems for opengl applications to a memory leak that would fill up the entire RAM within hours and would need a restart of the X session.
Finally, I think I have something I can tolerate. I added the xorg-edgers ppa to my sources.list (instructions here - https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa) and installed the latest updates for the X server, drivers and the kernel. This has solved all but one of my problems (there is still a memory leak when switching to the text console and back), but I can live with it.
If anyone has had problems with X on Jaunty, its worth trying out the above solution.
Finally, I think I have something I can tolerate. I added the xorg-edgers ppa to my sources.list (instructions here - https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa) and installed the latest updates for the X server, drivers and the kernel. This has solved all but one of my problems (there is still a memory leak when switching to the text console and back), but I can live with it.
If anyone has had problems with X on Jaunty, its worth trying out the above solution.
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