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[Bug 552509] Re: Helena 64-bit with ATI driver - Visual Effects not re-enabled at login

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Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:37:42 -0000
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Hardware Details:
Toshiba A305-S6916 laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 card. I run 2 monitors, the laptop monitor (1200x800) and an Acer AL2216W via the VGA connection (1680x1050).

Multi-Display Desktop mode:
I applied the latest Helena patches on 3/31 (although according to the history log it doesn't seem like there would be anything in the patches that dealt with display properties). Testing with the 10.2 ATI software (which was installed long ago using all the standard install options followed by "aticonfig --initial") cleared up the issue that I reported above. Not sure how that happened, but things are now working properly in "Multi-Display desktop" mode for multiple monitors. I installed the newest 10.3 ATI code and all is still fine. Everything in this display mode works properly now in both Helena and Isadora.

Single Display Desktop mode:
Visual Effects work in "Single display desktop" mode with the 10.3 ATI code (does not work at all with the 10.2 version), but only to the geometry of the smallest monitor. The laptop monitor is perfect, but only the upper left-hand (1200x800) portion of the Acer monitor (1680x1050) is managed properly by Compiz - the rest of the display on the right and bottom is just garbage characters. There is a desktop there, items can be dragged into the area, but it is not usable because of the garbage characters. It does not matter if Xinerama is enabled or not. As soon as I turn off Visual Effects both of the desktops return immediately to normal with no garbage characters. If I set the geometry of the monitors to be identical (1200x800) then Visual Effects work as expected with or without Xinerama. This happens in exactly the same manner with the latest Isadora updates too. I have not had the time to play with all of the Visual Effects settings to see if there is anything ion particular that triggers this behaviour - that's on my to-do list.

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Helena 64-bit with ATI driver - Visual Effects not re-enabled at login
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/552509
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