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Comment 8 for bug 626943

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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote : Re: [Bug 626943] Re: [Maverick] Flickering on Radeon - please cherry pick 646d2e9fbc41bf49075013009e9583bec4a51168

* Chris Coulson (<email address hidden>) wrote:
> I've refreshed the packages in ia32-libs a couple of times in the last
> few days. Can somebody test if it has picked this change up now?

I'm not going to have a chance to try it again until the weekend. However,
ubuntu6 was good for me last weekend.

Dave

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> [Maverick] Flickering on Radeon - please cherry pick 646d2e9fbc41bf49075013009e9583bec4a51168
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/626943
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> Status in ???ia32-libs??? package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in ???mesa??? package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in ???ia32-libs??? source package in Maverick: New
> Status in ???mesa??? source package in Maverick: Fix Released
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> Bug description:
> Hi,
> I've got a Radeon HD4350 and on Maverick most 3d games (assaultcube for example) and Google Earth are badly flickering
> and misrendering. I asked on xorg-driver-ati :
>
> http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2010-August/016927.html
>
> and Michel Dänzer was good enough to suggest a patch which is in the current mesa git tree
> 646d2e9fbc41bf49075013009e9583bec4a51168
>
> I pulled this and applied it on top of 7.8.2-2ubuntu2 and it does seem to fix the problem; so I ask that you bring this in - it
> makes the difference between assaultcube being unplayable and googleearth being very annoying, to both of them acting as normal.
>
> The diff goes in reasonably easily (I seem to remember there is a patch to one file that isn't in the 7.8.2 version - I just ommitted that).
>
> There is a ppa of the build currently cooking at:
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-treblig/+archive/mesafiddle/+packages
>
> (Note for google-earth you have to update the ia32-libs as well, or if you're doing it by hand copy in the libGL and the dri directory in /usr/lib32 )
>
> Dave
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