oops. forgot a step before the last one: it should have read: upgraded libgl1-mesa-dri, thereby breaking blender again.
downgrade libdrm-intel1 to karmic >yes, blender is fine again but tux is now at only 1 to 2 FPS. I think downgrading libdrm-intel1 alone might have broken the whole DRI acceleration so that blender did things in software, but that is just me guessing. -- xorg-edgers regression: screen corruption in blender https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423047 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to libdrm in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ 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