I upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid RC. But I installed all updates after that. So, I am guessing I am now using 8.10 final only. That said, I can confirm that this behavior exists even now. Here is the output of "lspci | grep VGA"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) -- cannot start Gnome session since intrepid beta on 845G-based system with compiz enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277373 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
