Comment 436 for bug 541511

For those like myself wishing to stick with LTS, I have the 855GM working beautifully with desktop effects, xvideo and no known problems or side effects. Using, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes as a reference, I enabled KMS and enabled the glasen ppa to install the latest intel driver (currently 2.15.0) and related packages like libdrm2 and libdrm-intel1.

I'm also running kernel 2.6.38-10-generic #46~lucid1-Ubuntu from lucid-updates. I was running backported kernels before, but this one came up a few days ago and has run very nicely. I thought Lucid was sticking to 2.6.32, but this seems to be a supported kernel and even says in the notes that Canonical will support it until October 2011.