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notify-osd package

No notification on IBM Thinkpad X31 (Karmic)

Bug #459753 reported by Fabio Marzocca on 2009-10-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #426582: [RV200] (32MB) certain windows drawn garbled when XAA is used. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	notify-osd (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Medium	Unassigned	Ubuntu karmic-updates

Bug Description

Binary package hint: notify-osd

After upgrading to Karmic I have lost all the notifications on my IBM thinkpad X31. Nothing appears.

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Fabio Marzocca (thesaltydog) wrote on 2009-10-24:

osd-broke.jpg Edit (11.4 KiB, image/jpeg)

I am attaching here the notification screenshot.

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Martin Reiche (grimsrud) wrote on 2009-10-25:

Screenshot with compiz enabled Edit (392.6 KiB, image/png)

I know that this is no forum but may I ask if compiz works for you (at all)?

If I look at your screenshot it looks pretty much like my Desktop after I tried the 9.10 RC live-CD with disabled compiz.
Even worse: when enabling compiz I get artifacts all over my Desktop.

As I have an IBM X31 too so this might be related.

I will attach my screenshots.

BTW: i made no changes in the live-CD session at all... only tried it with and without enabled compiz.

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Martin Reiche (grimsrud) wrote on 2009-10-25:

Screenshot with enabled compiz (worse) Edit (204.9 KiB, image/png)

And another one.

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Fabio Marzocca (thesaltydog) wrote on 2009-10-25:

No compiz available for X31, but notifyOSD should be there!

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2009-10-26:

Fabio, you're supplied screenshot with the messed up notification-bubble looks like a known bug in xorg-xserver-video-ati. Do you have an ATI-based GPU in your laptop? Since I don't know yet what GPU is installed on your system, I'll provide the info I know regarding the ATI-driver related bug.

It occurs if XAA (instead of EXA) is used in combination with XRender-acceleration. The XAA-codepath in Xorg video-drivers is unmaintained by now and will not likely to see any further work. On such systems EXA should be enabled.

Please also see:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/429295

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete
importance:	Undecided → Medium
milestone:	none → karmic-updates

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Fabio Marzocca (thesaltydog) wrote on 2009-10-26:

Mirco,

you are right!
I have changed XAA to EXA and now I have back my OSD.

Thanks a lot. I will mark this as a duplicato of #429295

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Martin Reiche (grimsrud) wrote on 2009-10-26:

As I have the same problem I will answer:
the IBM X31 comes with a radeon 7000 (r100 m6ly).

"The XAA-codepath in Xorg video-drivers is unmaintained by now and will not likely to see any further work. On such systems EXA should be enabled."
Without making changes to xorg.conf 9.10 RC starts per default with "XAA" enabled. If XAA is not maintained anymore this should be changed soewhere?