[Radeon Mobility 7500] KDE taskbar and menu shows garbage

[Michael Tinsay]

Binary package hint: kubuntu-desktop

Installed Kubuntu karmic Beta in an old Compaq Evo N610c. After installing the latest updates from the repos, KDE starts displaying garbage. I attached a schreenshot. Even tooltips show garnage. I tried running Konqueror via Alt-F2 and Konqueror runs ok bu the window's borders and title are also garbage. I installed LXDE and everything is displayed alright. I'm installing ubuntu-desktop to try and see if GNOME will have the same problem.

The video card is an ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500].

[Michael Tinsay (tinsami1)]

To add...

I have also install Karmic beta in an Acer Aspire 3620. It runs fine, no garbage display. Just on the Compaq N610c. The Acer laptop uses an intel video card, fwiw.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Probably a graphics driver problem. Could you attach the output of the command "lscpi -vvnn" as well as attach a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log please? Thanks in advance.

[Michael Tinsay (tinsami1)]

Attached id the lspci -vvnn output...

[Michael Tinsay (tinsami1)]

And here's the Xorg.0.log...

[Michael Tinsay (tinsami1)]

GNOME is ok. The problem seems to be between KDE and the ATI video driver.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Thanks. Reassigning to the ATI driver, which doesn't have the greatest track record for the highest-quality 3D support..

[erichgamba (erichgamba)]

I got the same problem with an ATI Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M VGA controller.
This seems to be the same bug as #434376
It is also mentioned in the ubuntu forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1306180