Comment 171 for bug 359392

Well you are not alone. I have freezes with plain kwin with out any desktop
effects. I believe disabling effects just reduces slightly the frequency of
freezes not completely remove them.

For kubuntu will the desktop effects be turned off by default for this chip?

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Soeren Sonnenburg <email address hidden>wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 14:25 +0000, Rick Spencer wrote:
> > @Andres -
> >
> > Correect. compiz is (for the time being) blacklisting this particular
> > chip so that users do not lose data to encountering a freeze. The
> > blacklisting will be removed when this bug is fixed.
>
> At least for me disabling compiz is of no use as I get freezes with
> plain metacity too.
>
> --
> [i965] X freezes starting on April 3rd
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