Comment 24 for bug 338669

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Jithin Emmanuel (jithin1987) wrote : Re: [Bug 338669] Re: (Needs UXA) painting artifacts after qt4.5 upgrade on intel chipset

There is nothing can be done other than realize that ubuntu sucked bug time,
by letting this happen. If all they do is just make the code into packages
and release with out even testing if this works and with out even attempting
to look what's wrong, then it sucks big time.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Stephan <email address hidden> wrote:

> Comments in this bug offer different workarounds, NONE of which work for me
> having this video card:
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4
> Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)
>
> XAA / UXA (in case EXA is the culprit)
> -> UXA freezes the machine on start up with wide vertical black and white
> stripes
> -> XAA goes through a series of video mode switches but failes to start X
>
> KDE style Plastique instead of Oxygen
> -> seemed to lessen the garbage but not a solution, I still see gargabe on
> the screen
>
> Downgrade Qt to 4.4?
> -> not possible in jaunty
>
> Given that the bug was known before the release of Jaunty I sencerly don't
> understand
> how Jaunty could get released.
>
> Is there any information people with affected machines could still
> contribute?
>
> Status for KDE Base says "Fix Released" which however concerns only a fix
> for single line
> text edits.
>
> Status for qt4-x11 says "New Undecided", so what can be done to come to a
> decission?
> Anything we could/should try??
>
> --
> (Needs UXA) painting artifacts after qt4.5 upgrade on intel chipset
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338669
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