Unity doesn't work with proprietary ATI drivers

[Salih EMIN]

Binary package hint: unity

Let me try to explain what is the behavior of Unity. I downloaded and installed the Alpha 1 of 11.04. Everything worked just out-of-the box (Dell Studio 1557). I logged in to Unity and after I was connected to my Internet router, it prompt me that "proprietary drivers are available". I installed them and then rebooted. After that I reach the log in screen but after I provide username-password Unity doesn't show up. Now the interesting part is:
* I hear the login sound/music
* I see and use mouse point
* I see the wallpaper :)
* Notifications work, as notification balloon pops up to tell me that I am connected to Internet, but it is not transparent when I move the mouse over it

But if I choose to login with Ubuntu Classic Session, Gnome works and this is how I am writhing this bug report.

If you need more info please tell me what should I report.

Some info:
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fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series
OpenGL version string: 3.3.10237 Compatibility Profile Context

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apt-cache policy unity
unity:
  Installed: 3.2.2-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.2.2-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.2.2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-7.19-generic 2.6.37-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Dec 4 02:32:52 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20101202)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and help to make ubuntu better.

Can you please try to enable apport as explained in that wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity#Crash bugs (you can do that in your GNOME classic session) and then restart your computer before logging you to the unity session.

You should see after some time a crash report window appearing, and just click submit to file a bug (putting in the title that you are using ATI proprietary driver and that the free driver is working).

Do not hesitate if you need further help :)

[Salih EMIN (salih-emin)]

@Didier
Nothing showed up with apport so I manually run "ubuntu-bug unity" as described here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/685682

So I marked this report as duplicate of the new one.