On an IBM Thinkpad R51 - 2887 with:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
and kernel 2.6.32-21 + xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-3Ubuntu1 everything works perfectly, including Compiz. No X crahes at all. So, I pinned xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-3Ubuntu1 to avoid that the "workaround" xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-3Ubuntu3 gets installed and disables DRI.
Here are my five cents:
On an IBM Thinkpad R51 - 2887 with:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
and kernel 2.6.32-21 + xserver- xorg-video- intel 2:2.9.1-3Ubuntu1 everything works perfectly, including Compiz. No X crahes at all. So, I pinned xserver- xorg-video- intel 2:2.9.1-3Ubuntu1 to avoid that the "workaround" xserver- xorg-video- intel 2:2.9.1-3Ubuntu3 gets installed and disables DRI.