shiny desktop, anyone?

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

>> My notebook has an Intel 945 integrated graphics chipset.  This mroe or
>> less works straight out of the box.  However, Xvideo doesn't work *at
>> all*, you're reduced to using X11shm (which you have to set manually in
>> vlc, mplayer, etc. since they try XV first and bomb out when it breaks).
> 
> Have you reported bugs regarding this - especially mplayer?

compiz + xv seems to be a well-known disaster. However, some work is 
being done to fix it. For example:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2007-March/001576.html

- Mike