{"id":264,"date":"2010-01-30T09:26:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T08:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=264"},"modified":"2010-01-30T09:26:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T08:26:31","slug":"fixing-the-broken-osd-on-a-t41-karmic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Fixing the broken OSD on a T41 \/ Karmic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the Ubuntu forums, I&#8217;ve finally managed to fix the broken osd \/ notification system in 9.10 on a t41 thinkpad (the bug affects all radeon based devices, I believe) by adding the line<\/p>\n<pre>Option \"RenderAccel\" \"off\"<\/pre>\n<pre>to \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf<\/pre>\n<p>However I had to create xorg.conf first, check the Ubuntu forums for more information (search for &#8220;karmic no xorg.conf&#8221;), for example. It was also suggested to limit \/ set the AGPSize to &#8220;32&#8221;, but sadly this did not solve my problem.<\/p>\n<p>On the upside, &#8220;Stellarium&#8221; runs again, on the downside, it&#8217;s now slow as molasses, but that&#8217;s still better than a segfault in my book. Why the developers broke something in karmic that worked without a hitch in jaunty and earlier is beyond me, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the Ubuntu forums, I&#8217;ve finally managed to fix the broken osd \/ notification system in 9.10 on a t41 thinkpad (the bug affects all radeon based devices, I believe) by adding the line Option &#8220;RenderAccel&#8221; &#8220;off&#8221; to \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf However I had to create xorg.conf first, check the Ubuntu forums for more information (search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}