[Bug 295934] Re: [GME965] missing characters in Google Earth with DRI enabled

[ImChipBrown]

My Dell Latitude 610 was as close to perfect as I could get it under
Ubuntu 8.04.  The upgrade to 8.10 broke the graphics (most of the cool
screensavers, GoogleEarth, LBreakout2).  It screwed up VirtualBox:
cursor freezes when I start a Virtual Windows XP session and remains
onscreen, VitualBox's cursor takes over and is OK, on exit "real cursor"
still frozen.  It's a USB attached mouse, so I can unplug and replug it
and it lives again.

Luckily, I have a Linux and XP partition.  I can boot into Windows XP
and run GoogleEarth in all it's magnificence, so I know my hardware is
just fine.

It's the (expletive deleted) change in something - what, I don't know -
that made Ubuntu 8.10 a huge step backwards.  I'm totally frustrated.

I've tried all suggestions.  I've tried the xserver-configure thing and
it starts by asking about Frame buffers. IT NEVER ASKS which driver I
would prefer.

Other->OpenGL does nothing.
Other->Screens and Graphics asks for a password.  Then does nothing.

I've got a ton of xorg.conf.you-name-it files.  I've screwed around in
/boot/config-2.6.27-10-generic.

I've "lived" in Ubuntu for about a year.  I love much about it; enough
to make a few sacrifices.  But that damn "other" partition is starting
to whisper "Come back to the dark side".

>From the threads I've read, this is a very old and unresolved problem
with embedded Intel graphics chips.  I'm thinking there are a ton of
Dell laptop owners that have never seen how great their hardware can
actually run.  And a few of us that actually got it running somehow for
a blessed while, and have been brought crashing back to earth.

I need a new idea to keep me going.  Nothing I've found works.

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[GME965] missing characters in Google Earth with DRI enabled
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