Comment 396 for bug 351186

My report, having tested the lucid alpha 3 liveCD

Reports are good!

I am running a sony vaio, with ATI Radeon Mobility HD3470 graphics.

I have also suffered with the minimize/maximize problem with lucid and karmic.

With Lucid alpha 3, LiveCD, I boot up (I have not installed it) from CD, and there it is;

The cleanest fonts I have ever seen, with full 3D support.

Good Things I noticed:
1. My gmail on firefox looked amazing, meaning that the fonts were clean, crisp and thin.. just beautiful. Nicer at least that how it looks now...... and until now, i'd thought it looks quite good on Karmic!
2. Snappier feel
3. My external LCD (samsung, syncMaster 2494hs) optimal resolution was finally available, so my external screen was working and looking crisp (unlike with Karmic, with fglrx driver, where it is stretched and fuzzy)
4. 3D support out of the box, compiz enabled out of the box, NO DELAY for minimize or maximize or anything.

Bad things I noticed:
1. My external LCD, while looking like it is working of optimal resolution (nice and crisp and full screened), seemed to fill slightly more than the physical screen; meaning that when I maximized a window, the title bar is just out of the top of the screen. Strange.
2. as I was about to report (while actually using lucid) I moved to click the new yahoo quick search away (change it from yahoo to wiki) while loading the launchpad site to make this report, and suddenly the CD starts working again, the screen flickers, goes all multi-coloured and distorted, and the whole thing freezes. No escape using ctrl-alt-f1, or right_alt-sys_rq-k ... or any key combination I could think of. And I guess this is too difficult to troubleshoot on a live CD, as I can't get to the logs after it has happened.

All in all, looking very promising for us ATI users. I wonder now how the latest fglrx driver will work, once it is updated and available for the latest kernel.