[ale] thinking about switching away from ubuntu

[Brian Pitts]

On 04/14/2010 02:51 AM, m-aaron-r wrote:
> The MINT installer was also smart enough to turn OFF all (compiz)
> screen effects.  The Linux graphics drivers for this laptop's Radeon
> 7500 chip set seem to be marginal, and trying to turn on ANY of the
> compiz screen effects quickly leads to a system lock up.  Ubuntu
> 9.10 installs with compiz "normal" screen effects turned on by default.
> so it was instant lock up and a few reboots to get that successfully
> turned off -- plus you have to do an su apt-get uninstall from the
> shell to get compiz removed from the system in it's entirety.

FYI compiz maintains a blacklist of hardware that doesn't work. If you
encounter some that compiz thinks works but actually fails, you can file
a bug about it. In this specific case, a fix may be on the way in 10.04.

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/513950
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/507148

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All the best,
Brian Pitts