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[ubuntu] Help needed with i810e graphics issues.

Hi,

I am looking for some advice about the graphics issues I am having on my computer. I have been trying to figure this out for a while, and have looked it up on countless forums including this one. The first problem I am experiencing is when my computer is using hardware acceleration to draw a certain graphic and I rest my mouse over the said graphic a square forms around the mouse where that part of the graphic stops being refreshed. This causes ugly squares to be left on the menus when I am using special effects. I am able to get the squares to stop showing up by disabling hardware acceleration, but I would like to use acceleration since it improves 3d graphics rendering quite a bit. Another problem I am having is when I turn on special effects the title bars and window borders disappear to all the windows. I have taken a screen shot to show both the first and second problem. I think this problem has something to do with the wobbly windows. With Ubuntu 8.04 the normal special effects work fine except for the cursor squares. With Ubuntu 8.10 the wobbly windows are enabled with the normal special effects and my bars and borders are MIA. I am not sure why the wobbly window effect wouldn’t work though since I used them with this computer before on a different Linux distribution. A possibly related problem I am having is that the DDC/EDID is not working correctly on my computer forcing me to have to manually put in the monitor specs. With one of my monitors I must disable the DDC or all the 3d rendered graphics just show up as garbage on the screen. With my other monitor, which is an LCD, reading the EDID fails altogether.

This is part of the xorg log with my LCD screen:

Code:
(II) Loading sub module "ddc"
(II) LoadModule: "ddc"
(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
(II) intel(0): VESA VBE DDC supported
(II) intel(0): VESA VBE DDC Level none
(II) intel(0): VESA VBE DDC transfer in appr. 0 sec.
(II) intel(0): VESA VBE DDC read failed

As you can see my computer has Intel graphics. The Intel i810e to be specific.

Any advice would be immensely appreciated.

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