Perhaps there is more than one bug responsible. Again I ran Lucid-alpha, now alpha-3. Karmic is also installed, in case something goes wrong with Lucid.
My Intel g35 integrated video with Asus mobo and dual-core Cpu, ran just fine. Until I looked for ways to tweak the video to get higher resolutions. I accidentally installed *nvidia* software, and after a reboot eveyrthing was upside down and mirrored. I booted into Karmic to do some research about Intel & nvidia drivers and apps, and it told me, that installing nvidia software on a Intel video system would corrupt the Intel video configuration. So, to fix this corruption, I *purged all nvidia related software first*, (that is after changing compiz settings to no visual effects) Then I purged the Intel drivers and configuration. Reinstalled Intel fresh. And to be save, I also purged compiz, and then freshly reinstalled compiz. After this I set compiz to desired visual effects, and all was good, from then on! Now when I install newer Lucid, I purge all other video related drivers and software, that could possibly corrupt Intel video, except for the vesa driver, for it is a fail-safe fallback. Why have Ati, nvidia, and so on, drivers and software installed if it is not needed? Even in the Microsoft world nvidia is very peculiar & particular about other video drivers being present, and nvidia also interferes with Intel video. I am not a programmer nor am I advanced in Linux, but I am always learning. Hope this may have helped those who run karmic or lucid, perhaps older linux may also be affected, I do not know about older OSs, Tim Towers solution may work better. Bavarianph, Ubuntu forever! On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Tim Towers <t...@lorien.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I can confirm that I have this problem on a Samsung N150 pine trail laptop > (Intel graphics chipset). > Since all new accounts are set up with normal (metacity) visual effects > they all suffer from this graphical corruption. Logging in with a Gnome > Failsafe session allows you to disable visual effects on an individual > basis, but earlier in the thread Alkis mentioned LTSP and in a posting on > their forum provided a command line workaround that solves the issue for all > users: > > sudo gconftool-2 --direct --config-source > xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type string --set > /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager metacity > > -- > system GUI turn upside down when visual effects changed from none to normal > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267269 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > When i select normal settings in system>preference>appearance>visual > effects > from none my system GUI turn upside down, It's not a 180 degree rotation > but a mirror reflection , > > the screen of property window is presented here > http://tuxecute.blogspot.com/2008/09/intrepid-weird.html > > same is the case with whole desktop , i couldn't present whole desktop > screen because somehown\ the default screen capture utility only capture the > currently focused screen even only pressing print screen(without alt) > > I am on intrepid with P4 i810 graphic card and for more information ca > communicate me at vinu76...@gmail.com > > Ubuntu intrepid development branch > > I expect to enable compiz normal settings but instead what happen is > explained above. > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/267269/+subscribe > -- system GUI turn upside down when visual effects changed from none to normal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267269 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel 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
