Really nice that you guys narrowed it down to a single patch! In general, keep in mind that no patch is ever dropped unless there is a serious problem with it (and thus you should investigate why it was dropped before you mod you systems using such a patch). However, this backfill patch you mention above was actually dropped from Ubuntu because it causes graphics corruption on _intel_ graphics cards which means that I can't see any good reason for fglrx users not to use this patch. If someone is interested, the relevant intel bug is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/254468
Good news is that there might be another way to workaround the intel graphics corruption issue (i.e by using UXA mode). In addition, we are currently evaluating the possibility of switching to UXA mode for all intel cards in karmic. If UXA ships by default in karmic and we confirm that it fixes the graphics corruption we might be able to re-enable the backfill patch by default and get karmic to run fast for fglrx users again. -- [ubuntu 9.04 beta]slow unminimizing with ati card and desktop effects enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351186 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
