@Gnurou : you can still manually download the older packages from
http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/x/

> « I am really close from dropping Ubuntu on this one. »

So am I. I'm not sure if any project "head" at Ubuntu/Canonical is aware
of the seriousness of such issues and the point to which it can piss off
both old Linux sysadmins and I.T. professionals and Linux newcomers.

Myself I spent enough time in the past convincing non-I.T. friends and
relatives and friends of friends to "make the big jump" from M$ to
Ubuntu, advocating how easy, mature and polished it was. Well... Just
spent half of the week-end on the phone and email trying to fix my
friend's machines and explain them why their graphics were now crashing,
their screen getting black, their video playback sluggish, their games
unusable... And that it may get better someday, or not, who knows...

I consider that the recent series of regressions in Ubuntu are quite
close to distribution sabotage and I would almost wonder "who gets paid
by Krimo$oft for doing this ?"

Who among the distro validators is irresponsible enough to validate for
"distribution release" the breaking of Intel graphics drivers, the
absence (incompatibility) of ATI fglrx drivers, and so forth ? A desktop
machine without decent and working graphics drivers is unusable, period.

Yes I'm ranting again and I know that some readers of this rant will be
extremely displeased, but I think it's time for a loud "Wake up guys!
Who do you think are Ubuntu users ? What hardware do you believe they
use ? What do you think they expect from a dist-upgrade ? Do you believe
every Ubuntu users out there has both the competency and time for
digging into forums and bug reports, tweak config files with vi in text
mode, install experimental packages that may work then may break, just
to fix things that used to work and are expected to continue working
after upgrading to a supposedly stable distro release ?"

IMHO, these Xorg drivers problems make the whole Jaunty relase good for
the trash can (and kill the work and effort of all the developpers of
other parts of the distribution).

...and I still see "Importance : Undecided" on top of this bug report...

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[i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics 
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/342923
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