Comment 102 for bug 263555

ThyMythos: I don't think that post proves "it is definitely a X server problem" - it's a strong suspicion among the people investigating this, but as yet there is no solid evidence of what is causing it and allowing it to happen.

Removing the e1000e module will mean that the EEPROM is not mapped into memory, which would make it really quite hard to break (and indeed, the laptop which broke within 24 hours of running Intrepid a month ago, has been back with me for over a week now and running without e1000e.ko has been absolutely fine).