Comment 17 for bug 295904

I apparently solved my (8.10) problem Tuesday by switching to ATI's
proprietary drivers. Should be xserver-xorg-video-radeon (lsmod showed
radeon) -> xserver-driver-fgvlrx (was installed), what I did is just
enable Proprietary in System|Administration|Hardware Drivers.
The PC ran Compiz for more than 24 hours until now without a hitch, and
that was testing all sorts of graphic games as a selection for Snow
White's 7 grand-children as I call her ;-)
Except that the interference-like problem I mentioned remains, as well
as, what I didn't mention before, messages saying that X could not
initialize; but just retry, it hasn't got a strong mind about that ;-)
And, more Wine windows management problems I thought were gone when
using Compiz.
So, somewhat unpolished working, but working.