More X and Ubuntu

This interview with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder and head of Canonical and financier of Ubuntu, touches upon some of the problems Ubuntu has experienced with X with jaunty. Relevant to my problems in Gentoo, the interview cites issues associated Xorg and intel drivers.

From the article:

derStandard.at: In retrospect: Could you have done something differently to ease the problems people experienced with X in Jaunty?

Shuttleworth: To be clear: There was only one substantial issue with X, which related to hardware from a particular vendor. And as soon as it was clear that there was a problem that vendor stepped up, they provided really good inside, we had access to engineering, there was a real shared desire to resolve that problems. It's also worth that the vendor in question - Intel - is hugely investing in X so it would be wrong to say Intel is causing all this problems cause actually what they do is all this amazing work to make X that much better.