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[Martin Olsson <mnemo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It's unlikely that this patch will make it into the real jaunty packages
(because of the graphics glitches, because this patch was initially a
temporary hack that was not meant to be permanently added to the driver,
and because our focus is on trying to improve the -ati driver so it
works well for all users. It's hard to optimize for two different
drivers at once and we also can't fix bugs in fglrx). The goal is of
course to deliver _excellent_ performance though, just not using this
particular patch and probably not using fglrx. This is a long term
effort, various users might still need to use fglrx for a while for
certain specific cards etc.

@omnius, I think you're right that the graphics glitches do in fact
affect non-intel cards as well. I heard this from several people now.

@lesodk. To downgrade ALL custom packages from all PPA's back to stock
jaunty versions you might be able to use these steps (Note: this will
most likely uninstall all custom mods you have and it's a largely
untested set of commands so I have no idea if they will work on your
machine):

1. comment out the PPA from /etc/apt/sources.list
2. run "sudo apt-get update"
3. sudo apt-get -y install apt-show-versions
4. sudo apt-get install $(apt-show-versions | grep -v $(lsb_release -sc) | grep -v "No available version in archive" | awk '{ printf "%s/%s ",$1,$(lsb_release -sc) }')

Verify the list of packages it says it wants to re-install in step 4,
the list of packages to re-install should be all the X server related
packages you see if you click the little arrow next to "xserver-xorg" on
the PPA page: https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive
/xserver-no-backfill

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[ubuntu 9.04 beta]slow unminimizing with ati card and desktop effects enabled
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