screen problems in unity after some time with open source radeon driver

[magowiz]

after some time of use some part of the interface (launcher,windows) become ugly (see attachment)

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello magowiz
can you please folow this procedure:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/FilingBugs#Advanced%20debugging%20procedure
Thanks
Fabio

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

bug 783993 (evaluating duplicate)

[magowiz (magowiz)]

I followed instructions you pointed but unity didn't crash, aniway in attachment there is unity.log and as output I noticed some lines with the following warning:
Gdk-WARNING **: Attempt to draw a drawable with depth 24 to a drawable with depth 32

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Seems like a driver bug. Did you check if this bug occurs with the fglrx driver?

[magowiz (magowiz)]

Mine video card is old and is not supported by fglrx drivers....

[magowiz (magowiz)]

Any news on this ? Is there any further information you need to solve this bug ?

[Julien Olivier (julo)]

I have the same problem with gnome-shell and the open source radeon driver: after a while I tend to get refresh problems and/or totally messed up graphics like in the screenshot.

[Julien Olivier (julo)]

BTW, I experience those problems in an up to date Oneiric.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for your bug report. Can you please test and let us know if it is still an issue in Ubuntu 12.04 with all updates applied.

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