Comment 19 for bug 274340

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Forest Bond (forest-bond) wrote : Re: [Bug 274340] Re: Xorg freezes on start. Black screen with waiting cursor. Unichrome video, worked on hardy.

Hi Kai,

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:18:13AM -0000, Kai Springer wrote:
> I now did a new install of 8.04 as I couldn't use my webcam properly
> anymore (blurry picture in skype, cheese crashing...) and gnome was
> really slow with the openchrome driver in 8.10. Does anybody know
> whether there is any progress regarding this problem? What about re-
> releasing the via driver again? Is it worth it downloading the 8.10
> live-cd now or does it still hang on boot?

Have you tried this in your xorg.conf?

  Option "XaaNoImageWriteRect" "True"

Thanks,
Forest
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