opps! I spoke to soon. I have found the cause of the issue. It is DRI!! I had to force ably enable the composite extension. Now this is counter intuitive since ATI does not support composite, however by doing so the xorg log file indicates that the driver detects that composite is on and disables DRI and then everything works fine.
However if I set composite to "off" then I get the screen corruption and hard freezes. Hope this helps. -- 7.04 (fglrx) display corruption and hard lock with X1650 on SIS chipset https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
