Apologize my stupidity, Steve,

but what does it mean? This bug will be fixed for Intrepid?

Thank you very much for your support
Regards
Andrea

On 12/16/08, Steve Beattie <sbeat...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> This bug was found in the Intrepid development cycle; removing
> regression-potential and marking as regression-release.
>
> ** Tags added: regression-release
>
> ** Tags removed: regression-potential
>
> --
> video tearing with textured video on intel card
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278318
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>
> Status in "xserver-xorg-video-intel" source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu Intrepid: Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> [Impact]
> Previously we shipped an option to turn textured video on/off.  For
> Intrepid, textured video was felt to be stable so we removed this option.
> However, as evidenced by this bug, some people are still seeing some issues,
> and wish to still have a mechanism to turn it on/off if they desire.
>
> [Development Branch]
> The identical fix is uploaded to Jaunty.
>
> [Patch]
> The attached patch is a modified version of one we've shipped for a long
> time in the past.  It has been modified to default to on instead of off.
>
> [Test Case]
> On affected hardware, try setting the "TexturedVideo" option to false in
> xorg.conf.  It will have no effect in the unpatched version.  With the
> patched version, it will cause textured video to be disabled.
>
> [Regression Potential]
> Extremely unlikely.  It just adds a configuration option whose default value
> leaves the system identical to how it was before.
>
> For people who choose to use this option to turn off textured video, they
> may see artifacts, performance effects, or other undesired behavior (all
> reasons why textured video was desired to begin with).  It is assumed that
> people who wish to configure their systems this way, will accept these
> behaviors.
>
> [Original Report]
> Textured video seems to be enabled in the intel driver now in intrepid and a
> patch that made it possible to disable it has been removed.
>
> This leads to severe video tearing in all video players I tried: mplayer,
> totem, vlc.
>
> The only workaround for me at the moment is to use mplayer and instruct it
> to use the xv port that isn't textured. This also seems to confirm, that it
> is indeed textured video that is causing the problem.
>
> I'm using a netbook with a Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics
> Controller.
>
> My suggestion would be to give people who have this problem the opportunity
> back to disable textured video altogether.
>

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