Actually I think this bug is a big deal and makes opensolaris hardly usable..
To see how bad the problem can be try to install and run opera. 
Type something in address bar. For example, instead of opensolaris.org it turns 
out to be: opensoslari.org, or instead of google.com: ggooole.cm. 
See how letters that appear twice, move to different places.

To test if you have this problem without installing opera, open gnome-termianl 
and press and hold any letter key. If you have this problem, you will see 
stalls every  20-60 letters.

Interesting observation, if you move mouse while holding key, no stalls happen. 
And even in opera everything works: typing while moving mouse no hangs. However 
this  is hard to type and move mouse at the same time, thus this is not a real 
work around :-)

My suspect that this problem occurs only on laptops with some Intel video 
cards, from what I found about laptops in this thread:
Lenovo ThinkPad R61: Intel GMA X3100 
Lenovo ThinkPad X301:  Intel GMA 4500MHD
Toshiba Tecra M9: Intel GMA X3100.

Attached is output from device driver utility about video card on my laptop.
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node name:                          display
Vendor:                             Intel Corporation
Device:                             Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics 
Controller
binding name:                       pci8086,2a02
devfs path:                         /pci at 0,0/display at 2
compatible name:                    
(pci8086,2a02.1179.1.3)(pci8086,2a02.1179.1)(pci1179,1)(pci8086,2a02.3)(pci8086,2a02)(pciclass,030000)(pciclass,0300)
driver name:                        i915
instance:                           0
driver state:                       Attached
ddi-no-autodetach:                  1
fm-errcb-capable:                   TRUE
fm-ereport-capable:                 TRUE
pci-msi-capid-pointer:              90
acpi-namespace:                     _SB_.PCI0.VGA_
assigned-addresses:                 83001010
reg:                                1000
compatible:                         pci8086,2a02.1179.1.3
model:                              VGA compatible controller
power-consumption:                  1
fast-back-to-back:                  TRUE
devsel-speed:                       0
interrupts:                         1
max-latency:                        0
min-grant:                          0
subsystem-vendor-id:                1179
subsystem-id:                       1
device_type:                        display
unit-address:                       2
class-code:                         30000
revision-id:                        3
vendor-id:                          8086
device-id:                          2a02

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