Seems that this has not been resolved yet ... not trying to beat a dead horse, but to provide more information I will describe my experience with this issue.
I have three machines I used: Laptop: - Ubuntu 9.04 i386 (clean install) - non NVidia video card - the machine running Remote Desktop Viewer (vinagre 2.26.1-0ubuntu1) - Visual Effects set to Extra File Server: - Ubuntu 8.10 i386 (clean install) - NVidia video running NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 173) - a machine runing vino 2.24.1-0ubuntu1 (VNC server) - Visual Effects set to Extra Workstation - Ubuntu 9.04 amd64 (clean install) - NVidia video running NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 180) - a machine runing vino 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 (VNC server) - Visual Effects set to None, Normal, Extra 1) I was doing a clean install of Ubuntu 9.04 amd64 on Workstation. The Visual Effects on Workstation were defaulted to "Normal". Just after the installation (before doing anything to the system), I VNCed into Workstation from Laptop. At the same time I VNCed into File Server from Laptop. At that point in time, both VNC sessions worked perfectly. 2) While VNCed into Workstation from Laptop, On Workstation I installed the NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 180). It did not ask me to reboot, so I did not at that time (but I had a sneaking suspicion that I needed to have the new driver run.) At that point in time, both VNC sessions worked perfectly. 3) Still while VNCed into Workstation from Laptop, On Workstation (just after installing the NVidia driver) I ran the Update Manager and updated everything (July 24 2009) at which point I was prompted to reboot Workstation. Again just prior to rebooting Workstation, both VNC sessions worked perfectly. 4) After rebooting and logging into Workstation, I VNCed into it from Laptop. The Visual Effects on Workstation were still set to "Normal". The initial display seemed to work but there were no updates. However it appeared that mouse clicks and keystrokes were sent to Workstation from Laptop (was able to see Workstation's Monitor). If I shut the the Remote Desktop Viewer on Laptop down and brought it back up and re-VNCed into Workstation, the display updated to what was shown on Workstation, but there were no further updates. VNCing into File Server from Laptop continued to work perfectly. 5) I rebooted Workstation and Laptop a number of times, still same result VNCing into Workstation from Laptop did not update, while VNCing into File Server from Laptop it worked (updated). Trying to debug this some more, I tried VNCing into Workstation from File Server (did not update), and into Laptop from File Server (updated). 6) I found this bug report, switched Workstation's Visual Effects to "None", VNCed into Workstation from Laptop and it updated. To recap... Laptop --> Workstation (pre NVidia driver, Normal visual effects) == updates Laptop --> Workstation (post NVidia driver, Normal visual effects) == no updates File Server --> Workstation (post NVidia driver, Normal visual effects) == no updates Laptop --> File Server == updates File Server --> Laptop == updates Laptop --> Workstation (post NVidia driver, None visual effects) == updates File Server --> Workstation (post NVidia driver, None visual effects) == updates Laptop --> Workstation (post NVidia driver, Extra visual effects) == updates File Server --> Workstation (post NVidia driver, Extra visual effects) == updates Again I want to stress nothing had been done to Workstation other than doing a clean install of Ubuntu 9.04 amd64, installing the NVidia driver, and Updating the software. Hope this helps, Mike -- Compiz / vnc screen refresh with nvidia-restricted driver/VirtualBox/ATI fglrx driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353126 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
