Ajax provided a patch to the xserver that reputedly fixes the issue. Mind giving this a shot on a system you can reproduce the problem on?
http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/xserver/ *1.4.99.905-0ubuntu3*.deb ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: xserver-xorg-video-vesa => xorg-server Status: Triaged => In Progress -- GTK applications crashing reproducibly when using vesa https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246585 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs