On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 21:32 +0000, Sabin Iacob wrote: > may I say that crippling options so that we can't use external monitors > at their native resolution is not a solution?
You can use your external monitors at their native resolution. You just can't use Unity 3D at the same time, because it's broken. Allowing you to set a broken configuration is not an improvement. > the solution to this > problem is breaking the desktop into tiles smaller than max texture > size, doing compositing/transforms and then combining them afterwards > for display (or something more clever someone who is an actual graphics > programmer can come up with, this seems the most straightforward > approach to me) > This is indeed a correct solution, but not one that can be implemented and tested in the 8 days before release. So, for Oneiric, we're going to prevent you from setting a configuration that won't work. In P, we'll fix compiz and unity so that this configuration will work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830949 Title: [Intel N10 Graphics] Plugging in external monitor to VGA port makes both displays corrupted with thick slanted lines To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/830949/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
