Comment 6 for bug 569591

cant offer much useful advice .. but i have a similar problem,
though my problem is most likely self made.

New install of Kubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS, Laptop, ATI HD 3200 Graphics,
decided to d/load and install latest (aug 6th 2010) proprietry driver from
AMD. bad idea. failed miserably, i'm not too green either, been using Linux
since 1998 on and off, but just want nice easy distro on laptop.

removed propriety driver, modules, setup dir etc etc,
removed xorg.conf.
fail.

so spent a hour in Bash messing around, installed fglrx, radeon etc.
failed. cleaned up again.

d/loaded again the propriety driver for integrated mobility HD 3200,
fail. tried with jockey-kde, it identified my ATI Radeon integrated mobility HD 3200,
card as a Fire GL. go figure.

cleaned junk again, now propriety driver works very well system-wide.
HW acceleration is much improved on fullbscreen flash.

Only prob is KDE systemsettings reports
" Compositing is not supported on your system."
- but compositing IS running, indeed, its running very well,
i just cant get past this and change eye candy settings.

glxinfo | grep -i direct
direct rendering: Yes
    GL_EXT_copy_buffer, GL_EXT_copy_texture, GL_EXT_direct_state_access,

so i'm leaving it for now, i guess it maybe a disagreement between ATI and Kwin.
very odd.

Hope we get this fixed soon, i may file a bug, but as i say, i think its self-inflicted in my case.

Mark