There is nothing you can do about that. The Xorg Direct Rendering Infrastructure does not support redirection of direct rendered windows. You'll have to wait for DRI2 to be completed and for fglrx to be updated to it.
Adam
i've got ubuntu and whenever i start a game with 3d effects the window starts to flash.
I have a Radeon X1650
With the ubuntu driver ati accelerated driver.
Please help me
There is nothing you can do about that. The Xorg Direct Rendering Infrastructure does not support redirection of direct rendered windows. You'll have to wait for DRI2 to be completed and for fglrx to be updated to it.
Adam
Well, Nvidia could do something about it. Because I became sick of the flickering I have bought a cheap nvidia card and, hey presto, no flickering and decent performance, too.
There is also a "unredirect fullscreen windows" option in Compiz which will get Compiz out of the way when playing a fullscreen game.
Anyway, I recently introduced a friend to linux, and he has the exact same card, I can tell you that in Gnome I had the same annoying flickering/flashing problems when trying to play Baldurs Gate 2, as well as having the Gnome panels still visible --creating a psuedo windowed effect. Well what I did was installed blackbox, and ran the game from there --voila! It worked, no flashing -no panels. It also worked in fluxbox.