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[John Clemens <844454@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Bug #635258 is back in Onieric Beta 1, intel 4500, unity 3d. To
reproduce, just open xterm and start typing.... what you type will be
garbles, but the output will be fine. Similar corruption to before, with
a white box covering the first part of any letter typed, and scrolling
leaving a few pixels of the fonts on the left side of the terminal
window.  I can't figure out how to reopen that bug for onieric, since
its closed for maverick.

Also, since this has now come back at least twice, and xterm has
uncovered other previously unknown bugs (like nouveau w/ 3d support
crashing Xorg with fixed width fonts) can we get the ubuntu QA team to
add 'xterm' to a test case somewhere? xterm is a basic application, and
problems like this with it often indicate real issues that other
applications will eventually hit. Just run it, make sure you can type
into the window, and that all the fonts look right on both the input and
output text, and that it's white text on a black background. Its a
simple 30 second test, and will catch issues like this.

** Affects: compiz (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

- Bug #635268 is back in Onieric Beta 1, intel 4500, unity 3d. To
+ Bug #635258 is back in Onieric Beta 1, intel 4500, unity 3d. To
  reproduce, just open xterm and start typing.... what you type will be
  garbles, but the output will be fine. Similar corruption to before, with
  a white box covering the first part of any letter typed, and scrolling
  leaving a few pixels of the fonts on the left side of the terminal
  window.  I can't figure out how to reopen that bug for onieric, since
  its closed for maverick.
  
  Also, since this has now come back at least twice, and xterm has
  uncovered other previously unknown bugs (like nouveau w/ 3d support
  crashing Xorg with fixed width fonts) can we get the ubuntu QA team to
  add 'xterm' to a test case somewhere? xterm is a basic application, and
  problems like this with it often indicate real issues that other
  applications will eventually hit. Just run it, make sure you can type
  into the window, and that all the fonts look right on both the input and
  output text, and that it's white text on a black background. Its a
  simple 30 second test, and will catch issues like this.

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Title:
  Garbled Chars in xterm (Onieric)

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