{"id":1150,"date":"2010-05-21T06:29:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T11:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2010-05-21T06:29:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T11:29:11","slug":"notify-osd-render-problem-with-radeon-m6-ubuntu-9-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/notify-osd-render-problem-with-radeon-m6-ubuntu-9-10\/","title":{"rendered":"notify-osd render problem with Radeon M6 (Ubuntu 9.10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/notify-render-problem.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/notify-render-problem.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"notify-render-problem\" width=\"540\" height=\"342\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/notify-render-problem.png 540w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/notify-render-problem-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After upgrading my IBM X31 Thinkpad to Ubuntu 9.10, I noticed that  libnotify (notify-osd) pop-ups were having a visual artifact when rendered that made the text unreadable. After a half hour of searching the net, I determined that this was because my M6 chipset doesn&#8217;t support Render Acceleration correctly, and the default xorg.conf file from Ubuntu does not disable that setting for my graphics driver (Radeon M6).<\/p>\n<p>The solution is to add the option:<br \/>\nOption &#8220;RenderAccel&#8221; &#8220;false&#8221;<br \/>\nto the &#8220;Device&#8221; section of your \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After upgrading my IBM X31 Thinkpad to Ubuntu 9.10, I noticed that libnotify (notify-osd) pop-ups were having a visual artifact when rendered that made the text unreadable. After a half hour of searching the net, I determined that this was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/notify-osd-render-problem-with-radeon-m6-ubuntu-9-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}