Comment 96 for bug 147943

I know what you mean about video card being obscured. Not many people
run a X850 either. As far as bug reports go, I usually look to see if
someone else posted something about, and if not, creating a new bug
report. Alot of times it ends up as a duplicate of another bug with a
subject line that has nothing to do with the bug itself, similar to
this bug. My bug report had the title of something like, "Panels do
not show on desktop after logging in, running Compiz". Then when it
became a duplicate of this bug which could be nominated for "worst
subject line for a bug report".

But what I'm trying to say, is yes, you should file a bug report (as
long as it's not obviously a duplicate of another existing bug).

My experience with my card was strange to say the least. A fresh
install of Gusty + XGL had Compiz running. Then when I realized video
played very choppy, I installed the restricted drivers, which would
not run Compiz. So I uninstalled again. Rebooted, and reinstalled the
restricted drivers, and everything magically started working. I didn't
file a bug report because I figured I did something wrong.

So maybe try that and see if ity helps. Let me know and good luck,

Ross

On 10/10/07, Matt Jones <email address hidden> wrote:
> Ross Peoples wrote:
> > Matt, I have a X850 Platinum Edition and I have the proprietary drivers
> > installed, and compiz looks great...aside from these types of bugs, I've
> > never had it crash.
> >
> > Matt Jones wrote:
> >
> >> It is still broken. Even when I create a new user, roboot, and login as
> >> the new user.
> >>
> >> Please stop marking this as fixed!
> >>
> >> And thank you medigeek for nominating this for Gutsy. When I initially
> >> reported It, I thought it was in the list of Gutsy bugs.
> >>
> >> And, because I never mentioned it: I have an ATI X800XT Platinum Edition
> >> with no restricted drivers installed (because they don't have compiz
> >> extensions) on my desktop, and an NVidia Geforce Go 7700 with restricted
> >> drivers for my laptop.
> >>
> >> Both machines still give the same error with "stacking" windows.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> I didn't want to fill the thread with more posts, so I emailed this to you.
>
> That is interesting that it works for you. When I enable the restricted
> driver and reboot. it says that my card does not support composite
> extensions. I know it works, because I used to download the drivers and
> install them from the ATI site, years ago with older Ubuntu releases.
>
> Do you think I should file a bug report about it not working? I'm not
> quite up-to-speed on how all the bug report procedures work in
> launchpad. So I don't know if that is something they would care about.
> Just wondering since you have more experience with it.
>
> On a side note. I've often thought of just giving my video card to
> Ubuntu, so they can make sure it works. It is kind of an obscure card.
>
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> [MASTER] broken initial stacking (was: compiz hides quick loading windows at login)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/147943
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