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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Willem Ferguson, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been
any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an
issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development
release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in
the development release from a Terminal
(Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather
and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p compiz REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please ensure you have xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes
button for attaching additional debugging information. As well, please
note given that the information from the prior release is already
available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would
not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

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** Description changed:

- Dear Ubuntu Development Team,
- 
- I was asked by Jeet to create a bug report on this. In the very slim
- probability that this has not been reported yet, here it is.
- 
- It has now been four months since the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The
- problems that arise in the utilisation of existing NVIDIA graphics
- drivers with 12.04 has now been well documented with hundreds of posts
- on the Internet. The fundamental manifestation is a loss of windowing
- functionality upon bootup, making the 12.04 LTS  unusable as is, at
- least with respect to the 3D redering of the GUI. From the discussions
- on the Internet, it looks like this problem is perhaps not even
- restricted to Ubuntu since similar symptoms have appeared on other Linux
- variants as well, e.g. Fedora. The solution to this problem has been
- quite diverse, ranging from editing some of the X config files to
- running opensource drivers (that are extremely inefficient) to
- downgrading Ubuntu from 12.04 LTS (!!!) to Ubuntu 11.10
- 
- I have not come accross any official response from the Ubuntu
- development team with respect to this specific problem. Since 12.04 is
- an LTS we would hope that they would take this problem seriously.
- However, one needs to keep in mind that the solution to the problem
- probably lies not within Canonical alone, but with an interaction
- between NVIDIA as a company and the opensource community. I hope the
- Ubuntu development team takes this problem as a serious one that affects
- the reputation of Ubuntu LTS releases as stable operating environments.
- Recognising that the problem is not universal, but hardware-dependent,
- I have two questions:
- 
- 1) Is there, four months after the release of 12.04 LTS, an efficient solution to this problem?
- 2) If there is not an efficient solution to the problem now, what does the development team foresee about the solution to this problem in the future?
- 
- Kind regards and thank you for your hard work!.
+ The fundamental manifestation is a loss of windowing functionality upon
+ bootup, making the 12.04 LTS unusable as is, at least with respect to
+ the 3D redering of the GUI. Untested solutions read from the internet to
+ this problem has been quite diverse, ranging from editing some of the X
+ config files to running opensource drivers (that are extremely
+ inefficient) to downgrading Ubuntu from 12.04 LTS (!!!) to Ubuntu 11.10

** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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