ATI compositing desktop bug! (still waiting!..)

[uprise]

Well, I am new to linux and ubuntu, but it seems like this bloody bug has not been solved for years. There are many threads as i googled, back from years 2007, 2008... After lucid, i was hoping something (i do not know, if i should have) and googled recently. Found this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-b...sg2251958.html
That xserver thing (which i have tried before for 9.10) does not work!
What am i going to do about this? I cannot even use edge flipping because of that bloody resizing/maximizing problem. I cannot use stuff like docky. No compositing!

Until when should i wait?
Is there a possibility of this bug being solved?
Should i give my notebook to some windows user and get an nvidia one?
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--- Sony Vaio - FW
--- Ati Radeon HD 3400 series graphics
--- UBUNTU 10.04 64bit

[uprise]

anybody NOT having this problem?
anyone who has ati and running compiz?

[antenna]

I have HD4200 with catalyst & compiz and everything works fine here. Not very helpful I know . You're using the driver directly from Ubuntu (hardware drivers dialog) I assume?

[uprise]

I have HD4200 with catalyst & compiz and everything works fine here. Not very helpful I know . You're using the driver directly from Ubuntu (hardware drivers dialog) I assume?

yes, the fglrx driver.

[QIII]

After you installed the driver, did you go to the terminal and issue

aticonfig --initial -f

and then reboot?

I've had several ATI machines and have had little trouble since AMD bought ATI and started to get serious about Linux support.

[dE_logics]

Dude, there're no solutions; older ATI card support is getting worst with time, specially after mesa 1.6 and it wont be improved. I've talked about it in the freedesktop mailing list and reported a bug but the devs are least concerned.

The best show that you can do is use Gentoo, it will make things MUCH faster by compiling the drivers and all in a special way...but that wont enable compositing...the problem will remain the same.

[2hot6ft2]

anybody NOT having this problem?
anyone who has ati and running compiz?

ATI on one machine that's not having any problems. Not sure what chip it is since I'm not on it right now and it's built in.

[dE_logics]

anybody NOT having this problem?
anyone who has ati and running compiz?

No. Not with the older ones.

[fbkarsdorp]

check this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1470157

should work.

[QIII]

Dude, there're no solutions; older ATI card support is getting worst with time, specially after mesa 1.6 and it wont be improved. I've talked about it in the freedesktop mailing list and reported a bug but the devs are least concerned.

The best show that you can do is use Gentoo, it will make things MUCH faster by compiling the drivers and all in a special way...but that wont enable compositing...the problem will remain the same.

His card should still supported, since it is an "HD".

It should work with compositing.

The driver is in the repos.

Here's a list of the legacy cards, per ATI's website:

ATI Radeon 9500 Series
ATI Radeon 9550 Series
ATI Radeon 9600 Series
ATI Radeon 9700 Series
ATI Radeon 9800 Series
ATI Radeon X300 Series
ATI Radeon X550 Series
ATI Radeon X600 Series
ATI Radeon X700 Series
ATI Radeon X800 Series
ATI Radeon X850 Series
ATI Radeon X1050 Series
ATI Radeon X1300 Series
ATI Radeon X1550 Series
ATI Radeon X1600 Series
ATI Radeon X1650 Series
ATI Radeon X1800 Series
ATI Radeon X1900 Series
ATI Radeon Xpress Series
ATI Radeon X1200 Series
ATI Radeon X1250 Series
ATI Radeon X2100 Series

Supported cards in Catalyst 10.4:

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_104_linux.pdf

His card is in there under "Desktop Family"