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[BavarianPH <BavarianPH@xxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps there is more than one bug responsible.

Again I ran Lucid-alpha, now alpha-3. Karmic is also installed, in case
something goes wrong with Lucid.

My Intel g35 integrated video with Asus mobo and dual-core Cpu, ran just
fine.

Until I looked for ways to tweak the video to get higher resolutions. I
accidentally installed *nvidia* software, and after a reboot eveyrthing was
upside down and mirrored.

I booted into Karmic to do some research about Intel & nvidia drivers and
apps, and it told me, that installing nvidia software on a Intel video
system would corrupt the Intel video configuration.
So, to fix this corruption, I *purged all nvidia related software first*,
(that is after changing compiz settings to no visual effects)

Then I purged the Intel drivers and configuration. Reinstalled Intel fresh.
And to be save, I also purged compiz, and then freshly reinstalled compiz.
After this I set compiz to desired visual effects, and all was good, from
then on!

Now when I install newer Lucid, I purge all other video related drivers and
software, that could possibly corrupt Intel video, except for the vesa
driver, for it is a fail-safe fallback. Why have Ati, nvidia, and so on,
drivers and software installed if it is not needed?

Even in the Microsoft world nvidia is very peculiar & particular about other
video drivers being present, and nvidia also interferes with Intel video.
I am not a programmer nor am I advanced in Linux, but I am always learning.
Hope this may have helped those who run karmic or lucid, perhaps older linux
may also be affected, I do not know about older OSs, Tim Towers solution may
work better.
Bavarianph,
Ubuntu forever!


On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Tim Towers <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I can confirm that I have this problem on a Samsung N150 pine trail laptop
> (Intel graphics chipset).
> Since all new accounts are set up with normal (metacity) visual effects
> they all suffer from this graphical corruption. Logging in with a Gnome
> Failsafe session allows you to disable visual effects on an individual
> basis, but earlier in the thread Alkis mentioned LTSP and in a posting on
> their forum provided a command line workaround that solves the issue for all
> users:
>
> sudo gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
> xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type string --set
> /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager metacity
>
> --
> system GUI turn upside down when visual effects changed from none to normal
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267269
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>
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> When i select normal settings in system>preference>appearance>visual
> effects
> from none my system GUI turn upside down, It's not a 180 degree rotation
> but a mirror reflection ,
>
> the screen of property window is presented here
> http://tuxecute.blogspot.com/2008/09/intrepid-weird.html
>
> same is the case with whole desktop , i couldn't present whole desktop
> screen because somehown\ the default screen capture utility only capture the
> currently focused screen even only pressing print screen(without alt)
>
> I am on intrepid with P4 i810 graphic card and for more information ca
> communicate me at vinu76jsr@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Ubuntu intrepid development branch
>
> I expect to enable compiz normal settings but instead what happen is
> explained above.
>
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