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compiz package

Compiz does not work on Intel Sandybridge Integrated GPU's.

Bug #633376 reported by Robert Hooker on 2010-09-08

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	compiz (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Robert Hooker	Ubuntu ubuntu-10.10

Bug Description

Binary package hint: compiz

Currently (as of mesa git master from 20100908) Intel Sandybridge GPU's do not function correctly with mesa and correct 3D support is not planned until the 2010Q4 release in december which will not be included in Maverick. Starting a gnome session on one of these devices results in a black screen unless compiz is manually disabled. These devices may be released before 11.04 ships and hence using 10.10 could be expected, so we should blacklist compiz for now until things are fixed upstream so the basic desktop works.

The PCI id's were obtained from commits to xf86-video-intel:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=53767cc0d0a58d36cd445da3a31c65b349eebbba

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Related branches

lp:ubuntu/natty/compiz

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Robert Hooker (sarvatt) wrote on 2010-09-08:

debdiff containing the fix. Edit (4.7 KiB, text/plain)

Robert Hooker (sarvatt) on 2010-09-09

tags:

added: maverick patch

Robert Hooker (sarvatt) on 2010-09-13

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Robert Hooker (sarvatt)
importance:	Undecided → Medium
milestone:	none → ubuntu-10.10
status:	New → In Progress

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2010-09-16:

compiz (1:0.8.6-0ubuntu6) maverick; urgency=low

  * Update 060_move_checks_to_compiz.patch to add Intel Sandybridge pci id's
    to the blacklist, the mesa dri driver claims it instead of swrast so
    compiz tries to use it but does not work currently. (LP: #633376)

-- Robert Hooker <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:10:11 -0400

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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Jools Wills (jools) wrote on 2011-01-13:

has this been removed in natty ? I am now running i5-2500k with maverick and the latest xorg code from the xorg-edgers ppa and i just had to remove this patch to get compiz working on my setup. can't see any problems so far.

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Jools Wills (jools) wrote on 2011-01-13:

Sorry, i thought i was looking at the natty source and i wasnt. looks like it is removed or at least its not in the file referenced. sorry to jump on this closed bug too. Cheers.