Compositing disabled upon login, but works, with ATI graphics
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Mint |
Triaged
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have a Toshiba Laptop, Model A305-S6916, with ATI 3600 graphics, running Helena 64-bit. I've installed the latest ATI Catalyst drivers from the ATI download site. For the most part everything works perfectly - but the Visual Effects are not enabled when I login. I have to run the "Appearance" application and turn them back on. Once enabled they work perfectly throughout the remainder of the session (hibernate and suspend have no problem as one might expect).
Also, FYI, the proprietary fireGL drivers from "Hardware Drivers" doesn't work at all with this particular configuration.
I'll be happy to provide more information. I searched for a quite a while before posting this, but couldn't find anything that described this situation. Thanks for reading.
affects: | xorg (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | fglrx-installer (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | compiz (Ubuntu) |
Marking as upstream.
- Hardware drivers should point to the correct driver.. so that's probably a bug on jockey itself.
- It looks like Ubuntu is trying to detect whether or not your drivers are good enough for you to use 3D effects, and the result of that test is simply that they aren't. It should do that test in order to activate them.. but once activated it shouldn't test again and again... it should be up to you to disable them if needed. I'm not sure where to put the bug for that.. so I opted for compiz.