Thanks everyone, this fleshes in the table a lot better.  It confirms
what I suspected at the beginning - it's a mixed bag, great for some,
poor for others, and unfortunately there's not a strong correlation
between success and chip family, so black/whitelisting doesn't seem to
be an option for us.

>From what I gather, upstream is going to be sticking with UXA.  Earlier
on it sounded like they would backport stuff to EXA once it was ready,
but recent comments make it sound like that is no longer the plan.  So
going forward I anticipate that Intel will be prioritizing support for
UXA issues over EXA, which means we are going to be faced with the
situation of a) user for whom UXA is better than EXA will be pushing us
to move to UXA by default, and b) people for whom EXA has been working
ok but UXA brings problems will be upset to see the regressions.

In my ideal world, what I would like to see is for us the distro to hold
off on moving to UXA until it is more stable, and have technically able
users such as yourselves take the initiative of working with upstream
directly at getting the issues you've found investigated and solved.
This would help Ubuntu out a lot in paving a path of stability with UXA
that we can follow for Jaunty+1 (and maybe even Jaunty if enough work
gets done in the next few weeks).

So I would like to encourage each of you to forward the issues you find
upstream.  Here is a link to use in filing your bugs:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?bug_severity=major&component=Driver%2Fintel&op_sys=Linux
(All)&priority=high&product=xorg&version=7.4

When filing your bugs upstream, please always include your Xorg.0.log
(and/or Xorg.0.log.old) after reproducing the issue with Option
"ModeDebug" "true" in your xorg.conf.  Also include your PCI IDs, which
you can get by running the command `lspci -vvnn | grep -A2 "VGA
compat"`.

Additional guidelines on filing bugs upstream to Intel are at
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html - please be concise
and specific in your reports, and be sure to follow up; this will help
ensure the issue gets examined and addressed in a timely fashion for us.
I'm particularly concerned for 8xx since it seems to get ignored too
much, and I'd like to get awareness for the known issues upstream ASAP.

Once you've filed your bug, it would be wonderful if you could also
include a link to the bug in your comments on the UxaTesting wiki page -
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/UxaTesting - as this will help others with
similar bugs, and make it easier for me to keep tabs on how
stabilization is going.  In particular, update the Result section once
the issues you've encountered are no longer occurring on your system.

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