Ubuntu
compiz package

  1. Lucid (10.04)
  2. Bug #428769
  3. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 428769

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William Merriam (wmerriam) wrote : Re: compiz starts with a blank screen on a 2048x1152 monitor

quoted from the top of this page: "This bug affects you and 5 other people"

I'm going to go a little off topic and state the obvious, because this has to be fixed. This bug directly affects thousands of people. 6 of them have seen this page in 4 months. Nearly all affected users and would-be users have seen A BLANK SCREEN, and have given up on Ubuntu.

The real bug is that, with this increasingly common hardware configuration, Compiz is turned on by default, and nothing is ever displayed. No error report is generated. The installation process goes nowhere, or an upgrade results in an unusable computer.

This is from the point of view of a user. If you're trying out an alternative to Microsoft Windows (see Bug #1) and don't have expert help, the result is COMPLETE USABILITY FAILURE.

This rant continues here: http://technophobe.net/lucid_lynx/#compiz_bug_comment

I suggest posting further off-topic comments here: http://mnotes.spodcast.net/2010/01/ubuntu-2048x1152-blank-screen-bug-fix.html