I ran into some strange display slowness on my work PC, recently, and it coincided with the selection buffer selection buffer not working with VMware Workstation.  I narrowed this down to the Debian xserver-xorg-video-intel being upgraded to 2:2.3.2-2+lenny4 - the default acceleration method changed from XAA to EXA (see doc).  So, I ended up just changing it back to XAA in the xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
     Identifier     "Configured Video Device"
     Driver         "intel"
     Option         "AccelMethod"  "XAA"
EndSection

Works like a charm!

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