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xorg-server package

  1. Intrepid (8.10)
  2. Bug #254468
  3. Comment #35

Comment 35 for bug 254468

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John Carlyle-Clarke (jpcc) wrote : Re: momentary video garbage upon drawing new objects

@Michael Chang: I've always had and still have this problem on a machine with an nVidia 7900GTO (currently on 8.04) in Compiz and xcompmgr. My Intel-based laptop didn't have this problem in Compiz in 8.04, but it has appeared after my 8.10 upgrade. (I also tried out Arch Linux + KDE4 on that same laptop which has a similarly new Xorg server to 8.10 and saw the same problem).

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/290849

I'm not sure if the two bugs are related - maybe there are multiple causes of this issue. I've picked up some other display problems in 8.10 on Intel so maybe there are different things going on. But this issue seems to span across distros and different graphics hardware and come and go with time which makes it hard to pin down.