Comment 218 for bug 269904

Are you sure drawing the fire effect actually helps?I haven't tried by I
think by doing that you are forcing the GPU to set to higher clock speed.
That is why the screen refresh problem does not occur. I'm running Hardy and
I fixed my GPU clock speed (geforce 8400m) to level 2. The problem does not
occur except in openoffice 2.4 (sometimes) and adobe reader 8.

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Jan Krieg <email address hidden> wrote:

> Actually, there _is_ a workaround which works all the time at the cost of a
> bit cpu time (at least for me). Just go to the compiz settings manager
> (ccsm). Activate the 'draw fire' plugin, reduce all the settings to mininum,
> except for background brightness, which should be set to 100. Now when you
> draw fire on the desktop, it should be invisible, but for me it solves the
> screen refresh problems completely! So just draw a bit of fire after every
> reboot, and you're fine.
> Note: If you use the workaround with activating --indirect-rendering and
> disabling --loose-binding, it will also work, but the cpu time needed for
> the fire will be much greater (25% compared to 5% if you leave the settings
> to standard). Since the fire solves the problem all the time, you should
> leave INDIRECT=no.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Cheers, Jan
>
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