[ale] Ubuntu Compiz and Lockups

[Robert Coggins]

H P Ladds,

Would you mind sending that to me again?  I am not getting anything on
that link.  It says the conversation no longer exists.

Thanks!

Robert

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