As a sidenote, could this possibly be due to the dynamic shared video memory stuff the newer Intel integrated chips have? If so I could try testing while explicitly setting my video memory to the amount I do have dedicated.
** Attachment added: "dmesg dump after hang" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6778257/vidcrash -- Xorg+gdm goes into restart loop after crash caused by running some OpenGL applications https://launchpad.net/bugs/78449 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs