Comment 113 for bug 259385

I'm the originator of this bug -
1. I'm not a developer, it appears to be a tough bug compiz using a code path not likely used by any other code plus significant changes in X. As a user I spent countless hours trying to find out how to get running - always keeping a usable install in dual boot, and even doing things like installing xfce on Ubuntu and wondering why it worked - doesn't use compiz, of course!. The other users of the Ubuntu forums finally tipped me onto a relatively simple workaround. Thank you Ubuntu for a great forum setup!
2. Compiz is about nice visual effects using fancy graphics which may be pretty to some but do in fact insert main line code. I've a main frame performance background so I do like to minimize "extra" code which does not add function. Intrepid with compiz removed makes this 1 gHz Celeron laptop nicely usable, even You Tube & BBC videos. If you have lots of gHz and fancy video hardware a bit more overhead wouldn't be seen. I imagine that's what the developers use.
3. What with developing code and fixing other bugs this one fell "under the radar" and wasn't dealt with in the release code. On one hand Ubuntu wants to widen the base on the other they didn't realize how many in the base are running Intel graphics hardware. (Intel - have you heard of that company?) Ubuntu puts out Alpha's and Beta's to get early exposure there were such a potful of bugs to deal with they didn't focus on this one.
3, I'm using early early Jaunty here with compiz removed. It's running O.K. - which means they haven't tweaked Jaunty enough, here comes Alpha 1 soon, hang onto your hat.
Jerry