Comment 24 for bug 981168

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Pablo Almeida (pabloalmeidaff9) wrote : Re: [Bug 981168] Re: Regression: Installing apps causes a terrible visual glitch-- have to restart X.org.

This xpci command gives me:

i945g (8086:2772|945G[ \/]) i945 xserver-xorg-video-intel

2012/4/17 Bryce Harrington <email address hidden>

> @Bilal, note that the i915 you're seeing in your lspci is the kernel
> driver, not the chipset family. For instance on my system it is:
>
> $ lspci -vvnn
> ...
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE
> Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev
> 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02f4]
> ....
> Kernel driver in use: i915
> Kernel modules: intelfb, i915
>
> For some intel devices they don't give the chipset family, but you can
> look them up using the new xpci command:
>
> $ xpci 8086:27ae
> i945gme (8086:27ae|945GME) i945 xserver-xorg-video-intel
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/981168
>
> Title:
> Regression: Installing apps causes a terrible visual glitch-- have to
> restart X.org.
>
> Status in Unity:
> Confirmed
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in “unity” source package in Precise:
> Confirmed
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Precise:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Installing any GUI app from the software center breaks the session
> with a visual glitch that hides everything. This is probably related
> to the new animation when installing apps (the icon flying to the
> Launcher), because it only happens when the Software Center is set to
> lock new apps to the Launcher.
>
> I believe this is really bad since this is going to be the default
> behavior.
>
> I'm on a Intel Graphics machine (lspci output attached)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
> Package: software-center 5.2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
> ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu2
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Apr 13 17:53:46 2012
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386
> (20120225)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
> TERM=xterm
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: software-center
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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