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I installed ubuntu 11.04 yesterday and I can only use ubuntu classic with no effects, because when I go on the normal ubuntu it flickers and stuff. My card is intel 82865G. I have tried adding i915 modeset or something to the grub but it makes my resolution REALLY small. I don't know what to do. This never happened in 9.10 10.04 or 10.10.

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Welcome to the club. Same problem on every PC I've tested 11.04 on. – RobinJ Jun 10 '11 at 21:18
I know it sucks its really annoying. – Pawan Jun 10 '11 at 21:50
Uhh... how do you do that? – Pawan Jun 11 '11 at 11:15
@Uri Add instructions on how to do that please? – jrg♦ Aug 10 '11 at 14:04
@jrg type in the terminal sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates && sudp apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade – Uri Herrera Aug 10 '11 at 14:57
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You can do one of these, or both:

Add this PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Or Downgrade Compiz to it's previous version as explained here, by doing this Unity won't be available anymore though.

sudo apt-get purge compiz compiz-plugins-extra compiz-plugins-main && sudo apt-get purge compizconfig-settings-manager

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:guido-iodice/compiz-0.8.6-natty
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install compiz compiz-core compiz-fusion-plugins-main   compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported compiz-gnome compiz-plugins compizconfig-backend-gconf compizconfig-settings-manager  libcompizconfig0 libdecoration0 python-compizconfig
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