Comment 69 for bug 444139
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| Andrey Barrientos M. (cpoliticas2005) wrote Re: (Needs KMS) Background and full screen apps don't show up when Normal Visual Effects on (ATI R200 chipset) | #69 |
Thank you bjaglin! your solution was perfect for me!
Since I have upgraded this machine to Kubuntu Karmic 9.10 (I'm using a R100 ATI videocard), it always showed I got direct rendering with glxinfo, however I had no desktop effects and couldn't run any 3D applications. After read some tutorials and launchpad bugs I set AGPSize to 32 and the desktop effects began to work, but no 3D applications (they hung up or crashed).
I tried everything out there, even to compile drivers and nothing worked. But when I downgraded Mesa to 7.5.1 as you suggested (thank for provide the .deb link, it is very useful indeed!), everything got better. Still games like Open Arena run a bit slower than it used to be in Jaunty but now the 3D apps don't crash anymore, the desktop effects are still there nicely, and more important, I can use again Blender.
I think there are problems related with performance in the newer mesa version in Karmic. Nevertheless this work around works flawlessly until the maintainers come up with a definitely solution to this problem.
Thank you so much again bjaglin!