caseycullen wrote:I was able to upgrade to 17.04 by using the Debian-based installer for 16.04, then dist-upgrade to 16.10, and again to 17.04. I had to remove packages lsvpd and ppc64-diag because they were causing dpkg configuration issues; they do not seem necessary for normal operation anyway. I also upgraded to kernel 4.10-rc4 (Sinan) with no issues.
Fantastic!

caseycullen wrote:I am running into an issue with Compiz.
Using Compiz when running the 4.10-rc4 kernel results in this:
Using Compiz when running the 4.4.8 kernel results in this:
Using the "Marco" Compton GPU Composter seems to work perfectly.
Unfortunately I can't see your images. Which graphics card is installed in your X5000?