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 seems to be the same as this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/440904 -- Notification and similar dialogs are displaying corrupted after update on Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416001 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xserver-xorg-driver-ati. _______________________________________________ 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