letters and buttons not displayed correct

[Niclas Kiefer]

The "U" in Ubuntu are not displayed correct, also when i start the unity dash, the first letter in the search field is displayed wrong as same as the close button of the dash.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.4.0+bzr2047ubuntu0+654 [origin: LP-PPA-unity-team]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic-pae 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,decor,snap,vpswitch,obs,grid,regex,imgpng,mousepoll,gnomecompat,move,place,resize,wall,compiztoolbox,animation,unitymtgrabhandles,expo,fade,ezoom,session,workarounds,scale,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
CrashDB: unity
Date: Fri Mar 2 23:24:25 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV710 [Mobility Radeon HD 4500/5100 Series] [1002:9553] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0205]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
MachineType: Acer Aspire 5738
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-17-generic-pae root=UUID=bb7ca3e8-544f-415d-836f-4a21f5c5e4f0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 10/23/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: V1.21
dmi.board.name: JV50
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Rev
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrV1.21:bd10/23/2009:svnAcer:pnAspire5738:pvr0100:rvnAcer:rnJV50:rvrRev:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 5738
dmi.product.version: 0100
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.0~bzr3025-r3034-p737~precise1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.30-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.1-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.1-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.99.901+git20120126-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

This probably has something to do with your GPU/driver. It appears that one column of pixels is distorted or something.

[Niclas Kiefer (niclas-kiefer)]

Right now im using the preinstalled driver. Everything works fine (and fast), that definetely wasnt the case in 11.10. Even Gnome Shell works fine now. When i was using the ATI driver instead everything was pretty slow and the opposite of smooth.

Can this be fixed without installing the ATI driver ?

[Niclas Kiefer (niclas-kiefer)]

I tried to reproduce the bug in Unity 2D. In Unity 2D everything is just fine ... So does this mean my driver wont work correctly with Unity itself but Unity 2D?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

duplicate bug 927441