X-Server on Kubuntu 7.10 Beta

[David McGlone]

On Thursday 04 October 2007 9:39:19 am Terence Simpson wrote:
> David McGlone wrote:
> > I Installed 7.10 beta last night and my X-Server is messed up. My icons
> > are are distorted and X is running really slow and the login screen
> > flickers when logging in. I remember having this problem when I was
> > trying to install compiz or barryl a few months ago but I cannot find
> > barryl to see if its installed and my system says that compiz is not
> > installed.
> >
> > Anybody have any ideas about this? I know the symptoms, I've seen them
> > before and they have got to be related to compiz or barryl and 3D.
>
> If you have xserver-xgl installed it will be used rather than the normal
> X server, regardless of if you chose an Xgl session or not. Try removing
> 'xserver-xgl' (if it's installed) and restart KDM.

Thanks. That was the culprit. All fixed now.



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