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[Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Ricardo Salveti <rsalveti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> The screen-flicker seems to happen only when the desktop is running
> Unity 2D. Tested with gnome-classic and xfce (with metacity running with
> and without composite), and it's working fine.
>
> Probably related with some specific effect that's used by Unity, and not
> fully supported by the framebuffer device.
>
> How many effects do framebuffers provide? If we have unity 2d working
on other framebuffers flawlessly then this really feels indicating
quite a serious issue with something as simple as framebuffer ...

Please raise this with PM. If unity 2D is not working then there
effectively is no Ubuntu LEB.

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