Comment 16 for bug 1167018

Both static and active blur seem to work ok now on Radeon X800 GTO (R480 chip) with the fixed packages.

I had some problems with it though, first, the PPA has no packages for 13.04, only for Saucy so I had to manually download the packages and install them with dpkg. Second is some broken dependencies, libnux depends on libpango-1.0-0 and libpangocairo-1.0-0. Libpango is installed, don't know why the broken dependency for that, but there's no libpangocairo in the repos. Also after installing, the package unity has two broken dependencies, compiz-core-abiversion-20130125 and libnux-abiversion-20130411.0.

I'll leave things as it is for a while and see if any problems come up with blurring or anything related, but for now all seems good on that front. Performance isn't all that stellar, though perfectly usable, but I think that's just a general unity issue. I realize my GPU is quite old, but even so I think the experience could be a lot more snappy. Hopefully performance is something that will be focused on with future releases. I understand unity in 13.04 should already be performing better than past versions, but I haven't used those so can't compare.

Anyway I'm getting off topic, thanks for fixing the bug, hopefully the fix gets merged upstream soon. As it is, the graphic bug makes the whole system feel broken on a fresh install and many people will just opt for something that works right out, rather than spend time googling on how to fix the issue.