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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #444139
  2. Comment #84

Comment 84 for bug 444139

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Robbie Coleman (robbie-robnrob) wrote : Re: (Needs KMS) Background and full screen apps don't show up when Normal Visual Effects on (ATI RV100/RV200 chipset)

here's my lspci -vvv:
lspci -d 1002:* -vvv
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
 Subsystem: IBM Device 0509
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR+ FastB2B+ DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 66 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Region 1: I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
 Region 2: Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at d0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel modules: radeon, radeonfb

I have found that @Dominik's http://www.ode2.com/?p=44 workaround to be sufficient as long as you don't f'up by doing a sudo apt-get upgrade later as locking the jaunty dri's will be overwritten once more. damn. back to the steps for me.