I've being trying Kdenlive, but I got a problem. The user interface is not displayed correctly as showed in this two pictures. Picture number one shows how it looks in my computer and number two shows how it should look. As you can see, many graphics guides are not being displayed, like the border of the transition and the position of picture to picture transition.

I have the visual effects to “None”. My computer is a MacBook 4.1 which has an Intel GMA X3100 graphic card with 144 MB shared memory. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic.

I first installed the version available in the repositories 7.5-1 and I had the same problem. Then I follow the instructions available in the Kdenlive website and got the the 7.6 from sunab alternative repositories.

I also installed kdenlive in a virtualbox's virtual installation of karmic and it worked fine.

Can anybody help me with this problem?

This is an issue with the intel video driver, see bug:
http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=1246


it can be fixed using the following steps:

Upgrade to xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.9.1 and the transitions are visible now.

Solution:

Adding the repo from https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

to /etc/apt/sources.list

Import the PGP key

sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Thank you very much j-b-m.

At first, using the repository you suggested and updating didn't work for me. After restarting my computer, the driver was very unstable, the refresh of the screen was slow and buggy. But when I used the xorg-edgers' drivers-only repository and updated all, it did work.

For Ubuntu users, you can add this xorg-edgers' drivers-only repository by going to System>>Administration>> Synaptic Package Manager. Then on the menu Settings>>Repositories. Go to the Other Software tab, click the add button and write ppa:xorg-edgers/drivers-only. Then close the window and push Reload button back on Synaptic Package Manager. At last, you click on Mark all updates and Apply. Reboot your system and that's it.

This will update not only xserver-xorg-video-intel but some other drivers as well. I guess that made xserver-xorg-video-intel work fine on mine.

Thank you so much. One thousand thanks. I appreciate a whole lot your quick respond. I know I probably should be more patient, but I'm kind of obsessive when it comes to try to fix things. Thank you very much.