appearance + video = bug

[woAnerges]

guys, i have ATI x1900xtx. my comp frequently freezes and i think it is because of some troubles with video card compability.. it looks like that: comp frozing and when i reboot, the overal screen going color-mess - everything blinking etc. and one more bug - when my appearance settings is switched to max beautyfulity, all effects is enabled, or even some of effects is enabled, then, when i opening an video file (avi,mpg,etc - it doesn't matter) it starts ugly blinking. it blink's and blink's - video is watchable but from this blinking eyes starts to feel pain.... i think this is an bug. can anyone help?

release K\Ubuntu 8.10

[Victor Drobot (linux776)]

Hi! I had a similar problem, but I was able to solve it this way:
I rewrote /etc/X11/xorg.conf to the next sight:
Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "fglrx"
    Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
    Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
    Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "on"
    Option "TexturedXrender" "on"
    Option "TexturedVideo" "off"
    Option "Textured2D" "off"
EndSection
This was followed by a restart of X.Org Server and I solved this problem.

[HammerHead66 (hollycowbatman23)]

you can also try this.

 Linux ATI Radeon Drivers.

 Here you go follow just like it says to or it will not work right. ( and no terminal is not terminal)

1. Install Linux, if you have not already done so. (if you have already installed drivers for your card in Linux and they are not working see step #11 on the How-To.)
2. Go to http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx and download drivers to your desktop.
3. On desktop text upper left side go to /System/Admin/Hardware drivers and enable card do not restart at this time.
4. On desktop text upper left side go to /Applications/Accessories/Terminal
5. Type -----------> cd Desktop
6. Type -----------> dir
7. Type -----------> sudo ./ATI_DRIVER
8. Install driver
9. Wait a long time
10.Restart

Tell me if you have any problems IRC room #ubuntu

                                                                                                     I hope I have helped you.
                                                                                                                         HammerHead66

 11.On desktop text upper left side go to /Applications/Accessories/Terminal
        type -----------> sudo apt-get --purge remove
        go back to step #2.

[Adil Arif (adisari06)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.