blank screen with kwin effects
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KDE Base |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Rich Johnson |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: kdebase-kde4
When i turned on the kwin effects for the first time i got a black screen that was flashing ( as if it was trying to do stuff ) and it settled to a blank ( black ) screen without a mouse. after restarting the x server i get a login screen but after loging in and trying to load the desktop all this happens again every time i log in.
The set up for that was a Dell 1501 laptop that uses a Radeon Xpress 1100 graphics card and all i had were the drivers included ubuntu.
so i went off and installed the fglrx non free drivers ( version 8.443.1 for my card ) and tried again to login to the session again with success! the effects were fantastic, but were a bit hard on my old laptop so i tried to turn them off and the desktop went haywire! only half drawing everything, sometimes having active windows drawn but others not drawing all of it. when draging the windows they seemed to do alright.
so i restart the x session and everything is ok again. i mess around with everything else and decide to test each of the desktop effects to see which are slowing me down the most, so i go and enable only the advanced window managment ones ( and one other but i don't remember which one it was, it was enabled the first time though and worked then ) and i have the same blank screen.
this time i have the right drivers and no matter how many times i restart the x session it won't show anything after logging in. i also restarted and then logged in with the same result.
Enough info for you guys?
Same problem with my ATI Radeon X1250 (integrated in motherboard ASUS M2A-VM HDMI) and fglrx drivers. After enabling all special effects I got a black screen (but it was not flashing).