[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 416001] Re: Notification and similar dialogs are displaying corrupted after update on Karmic

2009-10-23 Thread and...@drup.org
It certainly kills performance for me. glxgears goes down from 1200 to 30 !!! (I know that it is not a scientific measure, but it does reflect the dramatic change of feel.) maybe there is another option which would fix the problem without killing performance. b.t.w. there is another bug which se

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 440904] Re: Notifications are blank boxes

2009-10-23 Thread and...@drup.org
I just found this thread which may be about the same problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/416001 I tried creating an xorg.conf and adding this line to the device section: Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" It did fix the problem, but as stated on the other thread

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 440904] Re: Notifications are blank boxes

2009-10-23 Thread and...@drup.org
This is an accurate description of what I see: "Desktop notifications and the system monitor applet window are blank or just contain an apparently random grid of lines." My computer is the same as yours: "This is on a Thinkpad X31 laptop with ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY graphi