A little off-topic but just read a good article on h-online about Xorg , Intel drivers and the various kernel mode settings/gem which might provide some insight not just for Ubu. Here. (http://www.h-online.com/open/Ubuntu-9-04-and-Intel-graphics--/features/113196) The xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 looks old , 6 months to be exact. Xserver 1.6.1 is the current Here (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/) and the 2.6.99.902 intel driver is over 2 months old. Newer version 2.7.99.1 is available Here. (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/) Might want to do -dxlevel 81 also for hl2. p.s. If you're going to build Xorg/xserver/xlibs yourself, use JHbuild (http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/unstable/) if they're not available through the Gentoo package system.
