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[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

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       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  [fglrx] Unity flickering on window updates with fglrx and VBO enabled

Status in Unity:
  Confirmed
Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “fglrx-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  [Description]
  When hovering over icons on unity or using an application which does a lot of re-drawing there is significant flickering and graphic corruption. This only happens in 12.10 downgrading to 12.04 fixes the issue. 

  [Work Around]
  unity --replace sometimes fixes the issue (ie you have to do it two or three times, but eventually it does fix it and the issues doesn't re-appear for that desktop session). 

  [Easiest way to force the flicker]
  I have found the easiest way to force a flicker is to drag a window frame to the right hand side of the screen so the yellow bounding box appears on the right half of the screen, when this happens a lot of flickering occurs. 

  [Possibly duplicates]
  I've found a few bugs with similar problems, however these are for different versions so wasn't sure if they were duplicates or not bug #963093 ; bug #1059467

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: unity 6.8.0-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
  CompositorRunning: compiz
  Date: Tue Oct 23 11:22:38 2012
  DistUpgraded: 2012-10-19 23:06:44,859 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
  DistroCodename: quantal
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  DkmsStatus:
   fglrx-updates, 9.000, 3.2.0-32-generic, x86_64: installed
   fglrx-updates, 9.000, 3.5.0-17-generic, x86_64: installed
   vboxhost, 4.2.2: added
  GraphicsCard:
   Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cypress PRO [Radeon HD 5800 Series] [1002:6899] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Device [174b:e140]
   Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV710 [Mobility Radeon HD 4500/5100 Series] [1002:9553] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Device [174b:3092]
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
  JockeyStatus:
   kmod:fglrx - Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
   kmod:fglrx_updates - ATI Fire GL (Proprietary, Enabled, Not in use)
  MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X58A-UD7
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=UUID=39619dd8-dd3a-4057-b02c-dc3b954bf2b0 ro console=tty1
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-19 (3 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 11/10/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: F2
  dmi.board.name: X58A-UD7
  dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  dmi.board.version: x.x
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF2:bd11/10/2009:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnX58A-UD7:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnX58A-UD7:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: X58A-UD7
  dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.4-0ubuntu3
  version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu36
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0-0ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.99.99~git20120913.8637f772-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.9-0ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu3

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