Comment 5 for bug 353397

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Sebastien Gregoire (seb-gregoire) wrote : Re: [Bug 353397] Re: When watching video, any window over video causes corrupt display and logout

I will try this evening to see if I have the same bug (I'am currently at
work).
By the way, if you have time, I'm trying to enable DRI and activate compiz
with my G41, with no success. See
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/66818

Did you succeed on your computer ? If you have any idea to help me...

Thanks a lot

2009/4/8 christobzr <email address hidden>

> I think this is likely an Xorg issue...
>
> ** Package changed: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) => xorg (Ubuntu)
>
> --
> When watching video, any window over video causes corrupt display and
> logout
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353397
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>
> Status in “xorg” source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop
>
> When watching a video, be it in mplayer, totem or vlc, if a window or
> decoration passes over the video, the computer crashes with a corrupt
> display and forces logout. Sometimes the screen slowly flashes with a more
> and more corrupt display and a hard reboot is necessary.
>
> Sometimes this happens without any video playing, but rarely (it's
> systematic for the video playing problem). Some video files have this
> problem at the same point, regardless of if there is a window over the video
> or not.
>
> I have a new intel g41 mobo, with integrated graphics, intel dual processor
> and amd-64 ubuntu.
>
> I watch a lot of videos, this happens several times a day, it's very
> annoying.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit
> status 2
> Package: ubuntu-docs 9.04.6
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: ubuntu-docs
> Title: package ubuntu-docs 9.04.6 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
> post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
>