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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #353397
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 353397

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: When watching video, any window over video causes corrupt display and logout

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and Xorg.0.log.old files from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

You mentioned that it results in a crash, if this is the case please collect a full backtrace - see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Backtracing for directions. Also, attach the /var/log/gdm/:0.log* log files in case they have an error message we can analyze.

From the description it sounds like you have compiz (or kwin?) enabled. Can you test if you can reproduce it with that disabled? That would help isolate whether it is a compositing problem (which is what it sounds like at first glance).

If it does not go away with compiz disabled, next would be to test disabling DRI (Option "DRI" "off" in the Driver section in xorg.conf).

Another thing to test is to see if the problem occurs when using the x11 video driver instead of Xv in your original configuration (i.e. with compiz enabled or whatever). That would isolate the problem to the Xv extension.