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  1. Bug #478685
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 478685

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Cedders (cedric-gn) wrote : Re: broken compiz / graphics stack / ati drivers

I think this is a duplicate of (parts 1 and 3 of) bug 421842 - your notifications look just like the ones reported there, in Gnome and KDE. What does System Monitor look like with effects off? Here's an example: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31041978/Screenshot-System%20Monitor-tartan2.png

Quote "screen corruption with the system monitor, compiz, and notifications but also with Gnometris. Don't those applications all use Cairo or is it coincidental?" I found these problems are not present with xf86-video-ati-6.12.4, but are in the HEAD version of xf86. Someone else found a workaround (at the expense of performance) in xorg.conf:

   Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"