[fglrx] everything is black and blinks when using unity
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Nux |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Jay Taoko | ||
Unity |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nux (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Jay Taoko | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Canonical Desktop Experience Team | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
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High
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Canonical Desktop Experience Team |
Bug Description
I am using Ubuntu Oneric. Recent updates (where recent means the last two weeks, I can't say when exactly it happened) broke my desktop completely.
Every part of the screen, I mean every button, label, checkboxes and other interface widgets, the panel, launcher, desktop itselt, window title panels, and probably even more elements turned into black rectangles. In some cases it's a flashing rectangle (launcher is simply black, but the wallpaper behind it flashes when I touch it with my mouse). In case of window titles this is just a black rectangle instead of window decoration. In case of buttons labels etc. they display OK, until I move the mouse over them, then they turn into this black rectangle, and get back to normal when I move the window (sometimes some parts of the window randomly switch back to normal, just as if the window was partially redrawn). In firefox, behavior is similar, but everything gets black when I scroll the page, and returns to normal when I switch the tab. In terminal, all characters I type are black rectangles and are not seen at all, but it gets redrawn properly when I move the window. The unity panel is not displayed at all (black).
I cannot see the desktop itself, it's whole black, unless I open an indicator's menu, when I can see both the full walpaper and the icons.
I tried both fglrx from the repos and from ati driver download site, the result is same.
Unity2D works okay, and that's what I use temporarily, but I never had problems with unity3D. Note this apport-bug report I collected when using the broken unity3D, hope that will be more useful.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.4.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Mon Aug 1 08:25:07 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
bcmwl, 5.100.82.38+bdcom, 3.0.0-4-generic, x86_64: installed
bcmwl, 5.100.82.38+bdcom, 3.0.0-5-generic, x86_64: installed
bcmwl, 5.100.82.38+bdcom, 3.0-3-generic, x86_64: installed
fglrx, 8.872, 3.0.0-7-generic, x86_64: installed
DpkgLog:
GraphicsCard:
ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3650 [1002:9591] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02a0]
JockeyStatus:
kmod:wl - Sterownik urządzeń bezprzewodowych Broadcom STA (Własnościowy, Wyłączony, Nieużywany) [auto-install]
xorg:fglrx - Własnościowy sterownik grafiki ATI/AMD FGLRX (Własnościowy, Wyłączony, Nieużywany)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio 1737
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 02/11/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A05
dmi.board.name: 0P786H
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A05
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Studio 1737
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.5.0-0ubuntu1
version.
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu13
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.
version.
version.
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Changed in unity (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Desktop Experience Team (canonical-dx-team) |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Confirmed |
summary: |
- everything is black and blinks when using unity + [fglrx] everything is black and blinks when using unity |
tags: | added: fglrx |
Changed in nux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in nux: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in nux: | |
assignee: | nobody → Jay Taoko (jaytaoko) |
tags: | added: rls-mgr-o-tracking |
Changed in nux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → Invalid |
assignee: | nobody → Jay Taoko (jaytaoko) |
Rafal, do you see similar corruption to what is shown on the screenshot in bug 818630 ?
Could you attach a few screenshots please ?