[ale] Ubuntu Compiz and Lockups

[H P Ladds]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:

> On 11/05/2009 01:39 PM, Robert Coggins wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am stronly considering moving away from Ubuntu due to not being able
> > to run compiz without it locking up or rebooting X.  Everythign works
> > fine on my Lonevo T61 with nvidia card while compiz is turned off.  I
> > know it is a petty thin but it irritates me that I can't use something I
> > really like without worrying about losing work.
>

Some interesting info on your machine, Linux and video drivers:

https://mail.google.com/mail/#label/ALE/124c5aacb8edc359

Hope this helps>


> >
> > My question is this:  Having any of you switched distro and had issues
> > like this resolved?  Should I be concerned that compiz is the problem or
> > compiz on ubuntu?
> >
>
> It's true that by switching distros you might get a different version of
> Xorg, the Nvidia blob, or compiz that solves your problem. I have no
> idea if Ubuntu carries a lot of patches against compiz; poke around at
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz and you can probably find out.
>
> --
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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