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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #259385
  2. Comment #89

Comment 89 for bug 259385

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote : Re: [Bug 259385] Re: Intrepid Compiz hangs on login for i830MG and i845 video cards

On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 21:36 +0000, riny wrote:
> I think it's a problem in Compiz. This because the composite manager for Enlightment (e17) works.
> Shading of windows and transparent windows works in E17. Therfore it can't be a driver problem.
>

The problem here isn't with the composite manager component of Compiz.
Composite requires practically no driver support at all; the fact that
other composite managers work with your card isn't really relevant. No
other composite manager (with the possible exception of KDE4's kwin)
exercises these driver paths - offscreen rendering +
GL_EXT_texture_to_pixmap + (large texture) OpenGL.

The fact that compiz works everywhere else and only fails on this fairly
narrow band of fairly old graphics cards is heavily indicative of a
driver problem.