I can confirm that removing all compiz packages does work around this problem now. I don't even need to explicitly specify the "intel" driver. It didn't help when I first found the problem over a month ago, but now it works.
Still, I would prefer compiz and the video rendering is not as fast as it used to be. -- [gutsy, hardy, intrepid] Blank screen and (EE) intel(0): overrun on pipe B! on i945GM using intel driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221119 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs