Bug#538845: xserver-xorg-video-intel: X fails randomly, mouse pointer still works but no further screen updates

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Eamonn Hamilton wrote:
>> i865 is poorly supported for UXA/DRI2. I have the same problem on my
>> machine. Option "NoAccel" or Option "NoDRI" seems to keep things stable
>> (but slow).
>> Upstream is working on it but not much improvements so far...
>>
>>     
>
> Ah, I see. I guess I could always downgrade to a version of the driver
> which retains XAA - any suggestions?
>   

Driver 2.7.1 supported XAA (and EXA was supposed to work better there).
Packages are available at:

http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/rebuilds/Xserver1.6/intel-2.7.1/

Brice