Re: [Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-25 Thread Amitai Bar
Didn't work for me.
I have radeon mobility 5470.
I the known confuration and it worked only when tear free was disabled plus
vsync.


On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Boudhayan Gupta
<748...@bugs.launchpad.net>wrote:

> Just a heads-up: If I disable Sync to VBlank in CCSM, and keep Tear Free
> Desktop enabled in AMDCCCLE, I get normal performance, as well as no
> tearing (because AMD is handling it at the driver level). I guess the
> whole issue was because vblanking was being done twice (once at the
> Compiz level and another at the FGLRX level), and this was putting a
> huge load on the GPU with performance regression.
>
> My card is a ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330
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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-24 Thread Boudhayan Gupta
Just a heads-up: If I disable Sync to VBlank in CCSM, and keep Tear Free
Desktop enabled in AMDCCCLE, I get normal performance, as well as no
tearing (because AMD is handling it at the driver level). I guess the
whole issue was because vblanking was being done twice (once at the
Compiz level and another at the FGLRX level), and this was putting a
huge load on the GPU with performance regression.

My card is a ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-22 Thread axel
apologies,
 I keep getting my .gconf corrupted which prevents unity from 
loading. You are correct ... I deleted my profiles .gconf folder and logged 
back in and Unity is now loading as it used to do using the Radeon driver.

I still get graphics corruption (not the fkgrx black window issue posted here) 
which is the Radeon bug with my specific chip-set.
I belive this bug is associated with the shared graphics memory on my netbook.  
To avoid this I have to boot with radeon.modeset=0, which disables unity 
anyway!   

You should not have my driver bug so you should work with the basic
radeon driver and your hardware enjoy :-)

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-19 Thread Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman
hi axel,
thanks for ya explanation ... btw , if i uninstall the fglrx package ... the 
Unity work out of the box with resolution 1024x768  i would like to adjust 
the resolution to 1360x768 ...

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-19 Thread axel
Yes,
  does not surprise me, basically I suspect it comes down to the fact that 
your ATI chip set is not functional enough with the Xorg radeon driver to run 
Unity .Also like my R690M you will not be supported by the ATI fglrx driver 
(anything older than R600 is not supported in current releases). My R690M 
should work but has a driver bug and now defaults back to classic Gnome. 
Previously it ran Unity but became unusable because of the bug and the screen 
corruption it caused. I suspect a ppa daily release of Unity \ Compiz triggered 
this change in behavior so I can not even get the screen corruption.

I have not found any work around / manual config of xorg.conf to get unity 
working. If I do I will post and let you know.
In the past I used a kernel parameter radeon.modeset=0 in my grub.conf and 
managed to get compiz cube working with the radeon driver and a manual 
xorg.conf. You could try that.

I have yet to see anything that Unity does that does seems radically any more 
demanding than running Compiz Cube!
Its worth persevering as Unity has some really great features. I am even 
managing to run it as my desktop default on a 24In Monitor! :-)

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-19 Thread Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman
i still cant login to unity  only success login to Ubuntu Desktop
Classic

fenris@workstation:~$ apt-cache policy unity unity-common fglrx compiz
compiz:
  Installed: 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu1+r2754+201104151838 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/unity/daily/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 
Packages
unity:
  Installed: 3.8.10-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.8.10-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.8.10-0ubuntu1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 3.8.8-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
 3.6.8-0ubuntu3+r1046+201103301422 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/unity/daily/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 
Packages
fglrx:
  Installed: 2:8.840-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2:8.840-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2:8.840-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/restricted i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
unity-common:
  Installed: 3.8.10-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.8.10-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.8.10-0ubuntu1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 3.8.8-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
 3.6.8-0ubuntu3+r1046+201103301422 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/unity/daily/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 
Packages
fenris@workstation:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV505 [Radeon X1550 
64-bit]

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Re: [Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-17 Thread Amitai Bar
On Maverick I used to be able to use the vsync so it is clearly a
regression.


On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Stefan <748...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:

> To disable vsync in open CompizConfig Settings Manager (CCSM) go to the
> main CCSM menu and select OpenGL under the general category and uncheck
> Sync to VBlank.
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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-09 Thread Stefan
To disable vsync in open CompizConfig Settings Manager (CCSM) go to the
main CCSM menu and select OpenGL under the general category and uncheck
Sync to VBlank.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-09 Thread Grant B
How do I disable vsync in CCSM and Catalysy Control Center? Thanks!

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-08 Thread darundal
I still get laggy window movement after disabling vsync in both CCSM and
Catalyst Control Center.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-08 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
The latest updates fixed this problem. 
The laggy movements are fixed by disabling sync to vblanck in ccsm/opengl

** Changed in: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu Natty)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu Natty)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

** Changed in: unity
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-07 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/compiz

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-07 Thread axel
Right, for those who have been having an issue after an upgrade to
Ubuntu 11.04 from 10.10 and are having missing Title Bars on all their
windows .been driving me mad for days .

sudo mv /home//.gconf .gconf.old

log out and log back in and hey presto  window title bars back !

I am diff'ing the files to find the root cause ! I will post back ...
will probably have to log this as a separate bug !

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-05 Thread Eibriel
Deactivating VSync on Compiz Manager results on smooth animations.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-05 Thread Eibriel
I've updated from PPA as 'dart' says and Unity works now :)
Using: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3300 Graphics

Ading a Tab on Firefox, or closing a menu is a bit slow.

Thanks!

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-05 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:compiz

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-05 Thread David Barth
** Branch linked: lp:~unity-team/compiz/trunk.fix-xterms

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-05 Thread Mauricio Pretto
Same problem here
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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-05 Thread Didier Roche
** Changed in: unity
   Status: New => Confirmed

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Re: [Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-05 Thread Sam "SmSpillaz" Spilsbury
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:23 AM, axel <748...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> Sorry I was working late and I have just got back home.  Francesco Miglietta 
> asked me if I was experiencing slowness.
> I have two machines.
> 1 x Laptop AMD L110 1.2GHz, 2GB Ram  with ATI X1200 R690 Integrated Graphics 
> ... that is upgrading now and is the target audience of Unity. I'll let you 
> know in 1 hr about the performance.
>
> 1 x OpenCL Dev Workstation Sandy Bridge 3.4 GHz Quad,16 GB Ram  ATI HD
> 6870 .. This has been upgraded to Unity and daily PPA + Ubuntu's version
> of the ATI fglrx proprietary driver.
>
> The black window rendering has now been resolved.

If windows are appearing to become black (eg, they open and are black)
then AMD needs to be alerted of this since it means that the driver
has run out of video memory to put pixmaps into.

Copytexturing might be an option to look into here, however that is
probably going to be for O and not N at this stage.

> As for performance,
> its fine but then it should be on this system. However I can not test it
> properly because I keep having to reboot into fail-safe windows graphics
> mode. This is because there is an issue with the window title bars not
> being rendered at all in Unity so you can not move the windows around.
> The Text Tool Bar (File, Menu etc ) Appear in the Unity Top Panel so you
> can exit the app and reboot, but you can not minimise or maximise App
> windows.
>
> I do not think this is a Unity issue because even in Compiz Cube, the
> Top Gnome Panel does not even appear, when you rotate the cube ... it
> appears that the rotation is not a cube, but a flat 2d desktop that
> rotates around a central axis. Strange.

That's because you've got 2x2 workspaces. Cube only works for
horizontal workspaces, so you've got a 2 sided polygon in that case.

>
> laptop almost upgraded will update soon on performance.
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> Title:
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> Status in “fglrx-installer” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “fglrx-installer” source package in Natty:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “unity” source package in Natty:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  With latest unity and fglrx many areas of the screen are black (see attached 
> screenshot)
>  The black window in the middle of the screen is an xterm
>
>  Graphics Card:
>  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Juniper [Radeon HD 
> 5700 Series]
>
>  $ apt-cache policy fglrx unity
>  unity:
>    Installed: 3.8.2-0ubuntu1
>    Candidate: 3.8.2-0ubuntu1
>    Version table:
>   *** 3.8.2-0ubuntu1 0
>  500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
>  100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>  fglrx:
>    Installed: 2:8.840-0ubuntu1
>    Candidate: 2:8.840-0ubuntu1
>    Version table:
>   *** 2:8.840-0ubuntu1 0
>  500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/restricted amd64 Packages
>  100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: fglrx 2:8.840-0ubuntu1
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
>  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
>  Architecture: amd64
>  Date: Sat Apr  2 11:51:47 2011
>  DistroCodename: natty
>  DistroVariant: ubuntu
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
>  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
>  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu1
>


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Re: [Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-04 Thread dart
The screen curruption that you are talking about, I am getting that in
firefox 4 32bit version too, specially while playing flash video and with
add-on/toolbar icons (both in unity as well as classic mode).
This corruption does not happen with chromium. Also I was experiencing the
sluggishness exactly the way you explained. At time titlebars in unity gets
missing and I have to do compiz --replace which fixes the issue.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-04 Thread axel
Right  I have upgraded my laptop to 11.4 & Unity. 
I was unable to use the fglrx driver as I do not believe that the R690M X1200 
is supported any more (Thanks ATI).

To get Unity working I used a I manual xorg.conf and used the radeon
driver as I did in 10.10. Previously I had to use radeon.modeset=0 as a
kernel argument in grub to avoid screen corruption. This time in 11.4 I
had to remove the boot arg to get Unity to  initialize.

It works ... and I must say, yes it appears sluggish. The latency
appears to be the time from clicking on the icon in the Ubuntu side bar
to the window for the app appearing on the desktop. There is also a lot
of screen corruption around the fonts that is triggered when I launch
the 64bit Firefox (makes the system completely unusable & needs a
reboot). I do not get the issue when I launch 32 bit firefox.

Strangely enough the same issues I have using the Desktop with the HD
6870 occur on the laptop, such as missing gnome top panel in Compiz
Cube. Also in Unity there are missing windows title bars.

Sounds like these are all Compiz errors?

Keep up the good work with Unity guys, when it works it has lots of
promise to get the newbies on board!

I have a ATI X1900 and HD 3450 lying around, let me know if you want me
to do some more specific testing.

Thx
Axel

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-04 Thread axel
Sorry I was working late and I have just got back home.  Francesco Miglietta 
asked me if I was experiencing slowness.
I have two machines.
1 x Laptop AMD L110 1.2GHz, 2GB Ram  with ATI X1200 R690 Integrated Graphics 
... that is upgrading now and is the target audience of Unity. I'll let you 
know in 1 hr about the performance.

1 x OpenCL Dev Workstation Sandy Bridge 3.4 GHz Quad,16 GB Ram  ATI HD
6870 .. This has been upgraded to Unity and daily PPA + Ubuntu's version
of the ATI fglrx proprietary driver.

The black window rendering has now been resolved. As for performance,
its fine but then it should be on this system. However I can not test it
properly because I keep having to reboot into fail-safe windows graphics
mode. This is because there is an issue with the window title bars not
being rendered at all in Unity so you can not move the windows around.
The Text Tool Bar (File, Menu etc ) Appear in the Unity Top Panel so you
can exit the app and reboot, but you can not minimise or maximise App
windows.

I do not think this is a Unity issue because even in Compiz Cube, the
Top Gnome Panel does not even appear, when you rotate the cube ... it
appears that the rotation is not a cube, but a flat 2d desktop that
rotates around a central axis. Strange.

laptop almost upgraded will update soon on performance.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-04 Thread Saad Inam
okay, I've gotten it working with reinstalling unity and then following
the steps provided by dart and Jay. It works. Although I don't notice a
great amount of lag. just confirming that the black patches are removed
with the daily build. Thanks Dart and Jay.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-03 Thread Jay Taoko
You need to get the Unity and Compiz from the daily PPA. Also, there is
a fix in the fglrx driver, but it has not been loaded into Jockey yet.
However you can get the fglrx driver from the Ubuntu archive.

Here is some information you need:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/UnityWithFglrxBeta

As for the lags you may you observe, there are some issues with vsync
and the fglrx driver. We are working on them. In the mean time,
deactivate Compiz vsync control in the control panel for the OpenGL
plugin. Also deactivate vsync in the fglrx control panel. See if you get
some improvements.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-03 Thread Saad Inam
even when it finds the unity decorator. it doesn't load.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-03 Thread Saad Inam
I restarted the computer as well as reinstalling Compiz. ran the command
once again.

Desktop:~$ compiz --replace
libcompizconfig: dlopen: /usr/lib/compizconfig/backends/libgconf.so: cannot 
open shared object file: No such file or directory

Checking if settings need to be migrated ...no
Checking if internal files need to be migrated ...no
Backend : ini
Integration : true
Profile : unity
Adding plugins
Initializing core options...done
Initializing bailer options...done
Initializing detection options...done
Initializing composite options...done
Initializing opengl options...done
Initializing decor options...done
Initializing place options...done
Initializing gnomecompat options...done
Initializing grid options...done
Initializing move options...done
Initializing resize options...done
Initializing wobbly options...done
Initializing fade options...done
Initializing scale options...done
Couldn't find a perfect decorator match; trying all decorators
Found no decorator to start

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-03 Thread Saad Inam
@dart .Thanks, I updated and did exactly like you mentioned.
Unfortunately Unity still does not display. I tried the command compiz
--replace, but it still produced no result.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-03 Thread Grant B
I experienced the above bug and applied the PPA patch, and all is good.
Although it is slow, it is atleast useable now.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-03 Thread Arnaud Soyez
Not sure if this is related... but I'm getting the same type of issue
with Flash animations inside Firefox.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-03 Thread fang
I updating unity from PPA too and had slowness only when I move window. 
Launcher and another applications\animations works fine.
HD2600(mobility)

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-03 Thread Francesco Miglietta
@ axel:

do you observe any slowness in unity, as dart mentioned before?

Frà

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-03 Thread axel
I followed the instructions and updating from the unity daily PPA
resolved the issues with corrupted black windows on my HD 6870 with
proprietary fglrx. Wow unity is a shock! Pleasantly surprised! :-)

 I will now try it on my older Laptop with an RS690M Radeon X1200
integrated chipset.

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Re: [Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
You can get it from the daily PPA, aiui, and it will land in the archive
early this week.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-03 Thread dart
Thanks for clearing it up. Can't we have a minor compiz release asap,
may be only with fglrx patch so that we can have more time for testing?

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Re: [Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
To clarify the sequence of events: X had a change, which required a
change in the binary driver from ATI. That's landed now, and so compiz
(which is the framework underpinning Unity) needs a change to use it,
the change is in a PPA but not yet landed in the main archive. Dart is
saying that, with the updated compiz and fglrx, Unity runs, but slowly.
We will look at that as soon as compiz is landed.

Mark

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-02 Thread dart
Add the daily build PPA from here:
https://launchpad.net/~unity/+archive/daily. Fully update your system.
Log into unity session. If nothing comes on screen, try logging out
again. You will eventually see unity interface. Also be prepared to run
the command: compiz --replace for crashes.

But take a note that your eyes will bleed because unity will be
extremely laggy. I don't know what is causing it. So I purged the PPA
and now I am happy with classic desktop.

Once this fglrx patch lands in next compiz release in natty, I will file
a separate bug for laggy unity.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-02 Thread Saad Inam
@dart please explain more, I don't quiet understand what I should do to
fix this issue. I reinstalled compiz and now on the ubuntu screen, it
doesn't go black but there no longer is the top bar, aswell as the
launcher on the side. can you tell me step by step what you did?

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-02 Thread dart
You need to install latest compiz from daily build that have a fix for
it. After installing latest compiz from daily build PPA (this version
will land in natty soon) you will not get this issue anymore. However
the entire unity interface is extremely laggy which was not the case
with unity with open source drivers.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-02 Thread Joseph Parsons
I wouldn't normally opine into something like this, but on the off-
chance that it could be a possible cause:

Graphics Card: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G 
[Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
Computer: Compaq Presario CQ62
OS: Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 x86_64

I installed the FGLRX driver earlier today, and found it generally has issues 
with more or less everything OpenGL, proceeded to remove it, looked a bit into 
modprobe.d, and commented/removed two lines (one or both of which I may have 
added myself when I first installed 10.10):
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf: "blacklist fglrx"
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf: "blacklist radeonfb"

I likewise modified xorg.conf to use fglrx, though this may have been 
unnecessary:
Section "Screen"
Identifier  "Default Screen"
DefaultDepth24
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load"glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Default Device"
Driver  "fglrx"
EndSection


At any rate, its just a possible cause; I had also prior to the installation of 
FGLRX had xorg-edgers installed (apt purged it before doing any of this, 
though), and the machine itself was an upgrade over 10.10. Likewise, I have yet 
to be able to run Unity for whatever reason [well, actually, the 11.04 upgrade 
screwed up the /usr/bin/xsessions directory for some reason; prefer KDE anyway].

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-02 Thread Saad Inam
I have the exact same problem. I upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 and there
are patches of black everywhere. I am using an ATI HD 5450.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-02 Thread Benjamin Schmid
Same problem here on a Thinkpad Edge 11: After upgrading to 11.04 with
an active fglrx driver Ubuntu boots into a non-working unity workspace.

As experienced user  I was able to blindly logout (autologin) and change
session type to Gnome classic.  This may be an problematic issue for
users relying on a graphical interface.

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility
Radeon HD 4200]

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu Natty)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Desktop Experience Team 
(canonical-dx-team)

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

2011-04-02 Thread Francesco Miglietta
ok this is the same bug I report this morning:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/748123

my vga is an AMD Radeon HD 4250

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx

2011-04-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
John, thanks for confirming.

What's your graphics card ? Could you please open a terminal and paste the 
output of:
lspci|grep VGA

Thanks in advance.

** Description changed:

  With latest unity and fglrx many areas of the screen are black (see attached 
screenshot)
  The black window in the middle of the screen is an xterm
  
+ Graphics Card:
+ 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Juniper [Radeon HD 
5700 Series]
+ 
  $ apt-cache policy fglrx unity
  unity:
-   Installed: 3.8.2-0ubuntu1
-   Candidate: 3.8.2-0ubuntu1
-   Version table:
-  *** 3.8.2-0ubuntu1 0
- 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
- 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+   Installed: 3.8.2-0ubuntu1
+   Candidate: 3.8.2-0ubuntu1
+   Version table:
+  *** 3.8.2-0ubuntu1 0
+ 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
+ 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  fglrx:
-   Installed: 2:8.840-0ubuntu1
-   Candidate: 2:8.840-0ubuntu1
-   Version table:
-  *** 2:8.840-0ubuntu1 0
- 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/restricted amd64 Packages
- 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+   Installed: 2:8.840-0ubuntu1
+   Candidate: 2:8.840-0ubuntu1
+   Version table:
+  *** 2:8.840-0ubuntu1 0
+ 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/restricted amd64 Packages
+ 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: fglrx 2:8.840-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Apr  2 11:51:47 2011
  DistroCodename: natty
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  ProcEnviron:
-  LANGUAGE=en_US:en
-  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  LANGUAGE=en_US:en
+  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu1

** Also affects: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu Natty)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Also affects: unity (Ubuntu Natty)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Changed in: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu Natty)
   Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu Natty)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu Natty)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu Natty)
   Status: New => Confirmed

** Summary changed:

- unity rendering broken with fglrx
+ unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks)

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx

2011-04-02 Thread John Dandison
I upgraded from 10.10 - 11.04. The GNOME desktop (Ubuntu Classic) works
fine; the Unity one does not. It appears that anything drawn on the
screen will end up masked in black, like the screenshot. My versions of
fglrx & unity are identical to those above.

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[Bug 748137] Re: unity rendering broken with fglrx

2011-04-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
** Also affects: unity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

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2011-04-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
** Attachment added: "fglrx_8.840-0ubuntu1.png"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/748137/+attachment/1967760/+files/fglrx_8.840-0ubuntu1.png

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