unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Unity |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
fglrx-installer (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Unassigned | ||
Natty |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Canonical Desktop Experience Team | ||
Natty |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Canonical Desktop Experience Team |
Bug Description
With latest unity and fglrx many areas of the screen are black (see attached screenshot)
The black window in the middle of the screen is an xterm
Graphics Card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Juniper [Radeon HD 5700 Series]
$ apt-cache policy fglrx unity
unity:
Installed: 3.8.2-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 3.8.2-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 3.8.2-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
fglrx:
Installed: 2:8.840-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 2:8.840-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 2:8.840-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: fglrx 2:8.840-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 2 11:51:47 2011
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
version.
version.
Related branches
- Loïc Molinari (community): Approve
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Diff: 151 lines (+37/-34)2 files modifiedsrc/window.cpp (+7/-7)
src/windowgeometry.cpp (+30/-27)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Desktop Experience Team (canonical-dx-team) |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
I upgraded from 10.10 - 11.04. The GNOME desktop (Ubuntu Classic) works fine; the Unity one does not. It appears that anything drawn on the screen will end up masked in black, like the screenshot. My versions of fglrx & unity are identical to those above.