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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:06:10PM -0000, shelvingguy wrote:
> sweet...I just added the xorg-edgers ppa to my repositories.

And did that fix the issue?  What was the exact package and version you
installed from xorg-edgers that solved it?

> Would it be wise to keep it, or will the ati fixes come through the
> normal sources?  R

Depends.  Ubuntu does not roll out random updates of things to users,
since they can cause regressions; I'm sure you appreciate that you can
do updates and trust that your machine won't randomly break.

So, you'd need to help isolate the specific change that fixed the
problem.  Then, a thorough review of that specific patch is done, and
thorough testing performed to ensure it causes no regressions.  If you
have time to work through that process, I can give guidance.  Otherwise,
yes stick with xorg-edgers.  Sounds like we'll have the version with the
fix in Karmic so I understand if you'd prefer to just wait for that.