Confirming this bug on Asus EeePC 1002HA, "Intel Corporation Mobile
945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller".

Upgrading from Kubuntu Intrepid + KDE 4.2 (PPA) to Jaunty severely broke
KDE graphics.

First things I noticed were serious issues with graphics elements
redrawing, i.e. KMail toolbar disappearing and showing desktop
background instead until mouse is hovered on this zone, causing graphics
elements to reappear.

Well, it was perfect in Intrepid + KDE 4.2, broke in Jaunty.

If I wear my "dummy user hat" this is unacceptable, and I'm considering
ranting loud about general Ubuntu regressions at each and every new
version.

I've been a Linux user and supporter since 10+ years and sometimes a
little code contributor in the past. I'm now professionally managing
parks of Linux machines as well as advising non-I.T. friends and
relatives.

>From both points of view it is completely unacceptable that when
performing a version upgrade, oh, graphics get broke on this machine,
sound is lost on that machine, fglrx driver doesn't exist anymore for
ATI cards, KDE SSL certs support has been broke for the whole KDE 4.x
branch and not fixed even if bugs reports have been made 10 months ago,
kernel is now compiled without USB_persist, WPA2 isn't supported anymore
in Jaunty, Xen Dom0 kernel is missing since Intrepid and on...

What the fsck is going on ?

A geek can live with that and spend 1 day trying to figure out ONE problem, dig 
into a config file, read forums, recompile kernel on ONE machine when 
upgrading, but how could a professional managing a park of machine stand to 
live with that at each upgrade ?
How could a professional tolerate that SSL certs support suddently disappears 
between KDE 3.x and 4.x and nothing is done in 10 months to fix it ?
And how could non-I.T. more or less clueless beginner users (at whom Ubuntu 
also aims) find acceptable losing sound or graphics and having no clue when 
they upgrade ?

I don't know what Ubuntu's doing but I'm starting to get really really
angry at it generally speaking... I had to state it somewhere, now it's
done in that bug report :-(

Except for unforeseen and unpredictable bugs, a version upgrade should
never break anything that used to work, or something is seriously broke
with the project management, period.

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[i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics 
performance in Kate text, etc.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/342923
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