cube background doesn't redraw on the cloned display

[Tarnay Kálmán]

Binary package hint: compiz

When a display is cloned by the Clone Output plugin the background(it doesn't matter if Skydome is active) of the cube(when rotating) doesn't redraw on LVDS. I have an Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller.

[Tarnay Kálmán (tarnay-kalman)]

I made a mistake in the title, it doesn't redraw on LVDS(it doesn't matter which display is being cloned)

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the actively developed release. You can find out more about the development release at [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

I can reproduce this in hardy.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Thanks for your bug report. The symptoms provided indicate this is a problem with your video drivers and is being reassigned to the xorg package. For more information on problems with visual effects and video drivers see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/VisualEffects.

[Tarnay Kálmán (tarnay-kalman)]

@Travis: What did you reproduce it with? an Intel card?

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Nope, it was an nvidia-based laptop. I actually don't have the hardware to test dual monitor setups anymore though.

[Tarnay Kálmán (tarnay-kalman)]

Travis said that he had the same issue with an nvidia-based laptop, so it's not only an intel problem.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi kalmisoft,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and maybe Xorg.0.log.old) file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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A new major version of the -intel driver is now available in Karmic.

This version includes a major reworking of the acceleration
architecture, which resolves a huge number of issues. We do not know
whether it resolves the issue you reported.

Would you mind testing Karmic Alpha-2 and seeing if it is still a
problem? CD ISO images are available here:

  http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/

If the issue can still be reproduced on karmic, please report here with
your findings, and attach a fresh Xorg.0.log from your test, and we will
be able to forward the bug upstream.

Otherwise, if the bug no longer exists in Karmic, let us know that as
well.

In the off chance you encounter different bugs while attempting to test
Karmic, please report those as new bug reports.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

It seems likely to me this bug is gone; the -intel driver has improved immensely in Karmic and a lot of bugs are being reported as no longer present. So hopefully that's the case here too.