[ale] Ubuntu Compiz and Lockups

[H P Ladds]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:35 AM, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.linlap.com/wiki/ibm-lenovo+thinkpad+t61
>
> I cut and pasted this into another tab of me browser, and it worked. Wonder
> what happens when I send the link to meself -- hence the Cc:
>
>
Works fine for me.


>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Robert Coggins <ale at cogginsnet.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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