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[mass_konfuzion <lherard@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just recently jumped into this thread, but I had been having similar
issues with Blender that you all have mentioned.  I can confirm that I
got Blender to perform properly in Jaunty.  The short story is, I simply
updated my display drivers.

If you like long stories, continue reading :-D


I took the following steps:

1 - Followed the instructions in post #12 from Bryce Harrington.  (Note:
This didn't seem to solve the problem, and I'm not sure if the drivers
in the PPA contributed to my eventual success, because I think I ended
up further updating those drivers in step 2.  But I've included the step
for the sake of tracking what I did.)

2 - Updated to the latest driver of
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/IntelPerformance#Use%20preview%20of%202.8%20driver

3 - Edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf to enable UXA

Some notes:
- Blender now runs correctly, even with my Visual Effects settings at the max (before, when using the software renderer for Blender, I had to turn off Visual Effects).

- When I run glxinfo, I get the following error:  "get fences failed:
-1".  Even after searching around the forums and interwebz, I'm not
exactly sure what that means, but my graphics accelerations seems to be
working.  And, from what I understand, that fences error is harmless.
If anyone knows the real deal, please point me in the right direction.
I'm curious.

- One other very minor issue is that now, when I mouse over items in a
drop-down menu (not within Blender), it appears as though only the top
half of the word is highlighted.  I've included a screenshot.  It's
liveable, but I thought I should point it out.


** Attachment added: "Display281.png"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31728176/Display281.png

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(Needs mesa >= 7.5.1) Blender is unusable with UXA (DRI2 bug)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353763
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