We tend to encounter major classes of bugs when we upload to unstable. This is a place to track what's currently a problem there.
- For ATI boards, make sure the latest firmware-linux package is installed.
The XAA and EXA acceleration methods were removed from the intel driver in favor of UXA. But UXA requires kernel 2.6.30 for decent performance and has some problems with older boards (file bugs!). See http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/17395.html and http://keithp.com/blogs/Sharpening_the_Intel_Driver_Focus/ for background.
Ctrl-alt-backspace does not kill X anymore. That's expected! See http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/16916.html
hal is listed as a Depends even though a few people really want to not use hal. We might be downgrading this in an upload soonish. See 515214 for progress. Also see XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide for rationale and HOWTO.