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compiz package

  1. Bug #830949
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 830949

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Sabin Iacob (iacobs) wrote : Re: [Intel N10 Graphics] Plugging in external monitor to VGA port makes both displays corrupted with thick slanted lines

may I say that crippling options so that we can't use external monitors at their native resolution is not a solution? the solution to this problem is breaking the desktop into tiles smaller than max texture size, doing compositing/transforms and then combining them afterwards for display (or something more clever someone who is an actual graphics programmer can come up with, this seems the most straightforward approach to me)

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and no, saying "screw you, get a real computer" is not a solution either; my Atom 570 netbook has plenty of power (dual core + HT => 4 virtual cores) in a small, cheap and light package, I'm not giving it up for a 4 kg 17 inch monster with the nvidia mobile card du jour (it also has a nvidia ION2 which eats about as much power as the rest of the system); it's sad that Intel chose to cripple both the video card (2048x2048 max texture size) and the CPU (can't address more than 2 GB of RAM -- maybe they have a thing for 2^11), but the former can be overcome by smart programmers and the latter by SSD (seek times approaching zero make swapping significantly less painful)
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