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Status: Unknown = Won't Fix
** Changed in: fglrx
Importance: Unknown = High
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The new driver version 12-1 available from
http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx finally fixed it for
my notebook with HD4650. All animations and so are fast and smooth. For
installation you will need to download the package from the site above.
The following steps only work if you
Well, I should correct myself. It works on single monitors with 11.12,
but you need to turn on antitear and (in my case at least) disable
notifications by clicking on your name in the top right and selecing
Notifactions [ ] Off
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11.12 seems to fix it. Not available in repositories, I found a ppa with
it, but it doesn't allow individual install, so your going to have to go
on google and find it. (For some reason ATI/AMD did not post the Linux
version on their site.)
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I had some success with 11.12 as well. I can't declare full victory
because I am having trouble using dual monitors with it--seeing some
problems with Gnome Shell that I am not seeing under unity such as
flickering and freezing (sometimes only on the external monitor). But
in general, I can use
I have hand-installed fglrx-updates, and now it's almost ok for me - I
just have the glitches on pop-up tips and ayatana scroll bars, but it's
usable and quite fast. Using that now, let's see.
Jockey (additional hardware) continue to think that no additional driver
is installed. Trying to
Correcting myself. Crashing like a crazy when viewing/editing videos.
Back to unity. Sigh.
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Mostly usable - #80 and only a glitch - #82 are no good for me. I am
waiting for a permanent fix before I install fglrx driver again. I hope
ATI solves problem soon.
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Hmm... I was having a lot of issues, but going into Display in CCC and
changing use graphics processor for scaling to use display for scaling
fixed most of my issues, there are random white bars on the panel still
but other than that, and flickering when I hit the application hotspot
thing. Other
never mind on that last one, it was a very temporary fix and suddenly
everything is worse
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Hmm, I installed fglrx-updates and now it works almost perfect, theres
only a glitch when the notifier pops up
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The quality of video drivers NVIDIA is good for Linux, AMD linux driver
support is bad. Take an example consider include video acceleration in
browsers, according to the requirements were only NVIDIA. For Windows
driver from NVIDIA and AMD satisfy these requirements. It is worth
considering what
Dmitry,
That is exactly what I did.. The second part I mean!! :)
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It's long time that we wait for a patch.
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fuck AMD/RADEON driver bugs, buy NVIDIA!!!
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Somewhere I read that the latest Gnome shell from Ricotz PPA will work
but this is not the case. So you do not have to install it.
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For me the issue seems to be fixed using the 11.11 version of fglrx.
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The (this morning) update of fglrx-updates co (Now at version
2:8.881-0ubuntu6.1) seems to have fixed the worst of it.
Nevertheless, there is still some (minor, but not nice) problem. See the
attached shot --- easier than explain.
(5 minutes...)
well, I stand back, it seems that it's
Some more info: had a lot of tearing when activating the notification
(mouse in the lower right corner) area. Unbearable with anti tearing
off, simply annoying with anti tearing on.
Still unable to obtain a screenshot. Can anyone confirm this?
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Also tested the new version of fglrx-updates 2:8.902-0ubuntu0.1. Still
the same problems: Corrupted dialogs, tooltips and dropdowns. Very bad
performance (scrolling, animations). With the open driver everything's
much smoother (but far from perfect).
I confirm what Romano said: Also can't take
Yes, I have similar (albeit normally smaller) corrupted drop down and
scroll-bars.
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Yes, the problem persists and we don't have anyone assigned to this bug.
Why won't Canonical address this problem? FGLRX is not that uncommon.
Very few people find Unity a 'suitable' replacement and it's sad to see
that we are essentially forced to migrate to a different distribution.
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I do not have the blank screen after booting any more. So there is a
progress. Still gnome shell is unusable because of poor performance and
flickering. Rest is ok. Why should Canonical care about a competing
desktop? I tried this Fedora 16 Live CD this week and I cannot even boot
it - blank
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM, d3ngar d3n...@gmail.com wrote:
Why won't Canonical address this problem? FGLRX is not that uncommon.
Very few people find Unity a 'suitable' replacement and it's sad to see
that we are essentially forced to migrate to a different distribution.
Hold on, did
Another data point: the lock-screen simply makes the screen a mess
(complete lack of sync, it seems, like the not-so-good-old-times when
you got ModeLine frequency wrong in x11.conf files).
Uf. Need to go back to Unity to be able to work, I hope it will be fixed
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I succeeded in finding a workaround for Gnone Shell being displayed
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reproduce it.
Basically, I tried to follow the steps presented here:
http://drivers.downloadatoz.com/tutorial/28724,how-to-install-and-
I agree with David Lopez:
For me, the problem also persists when installing fonts-cantarell.
Mostly, drop-down menus and tooltips are totally corrupted. Scrolling is
worse than with the open driver. But 3D effects are far smoother. From
time to time the screen flickers completely. Overall,
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I should add that my videocard is ATI HD 3470 with 256 MB.
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Sorry for being confrontational, but I found the proposal to close down
the bug report a bit unbearable. Besides the original poster there are
many others which are confronted with this problem, as the thread shows
it. The idea is not to close the bug reports (maybe a wonder happened
and now there
I've installed fonts-cantarell and I'm afraid that the problem persists
for me. I can't see any difference, gnome-shell is still completely
unusable.
I use ubuntu 11.10 64 bits and fglrx 2:8.881-0ubuntu4.1
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Hey sean-fitzpatrick,
Hi, thanks for reporting this issue during the development period of
Ubuntu.
I notice there's not been further comments to the bug report since the
release came out, would you mind updating us on the status of it in the
release?
Are you still able to reproduce the issue?
Hi Bryce,
I stopped trying to use gnome shell not long after reporting the bug; partly
because it just wasn't working, but mostly because I've been happy with Unity
and haven't felt the urge to play with other desktops lately.
However, there are plenty of comments from people other than myself,
For me, installing fonts-cantarell is a *temporary* fix, i.e. it only
works until the next login.
Then, I have to reinstall the package (i.e. using --reinstall) to fix,
once again.
It is just a temporar workaround, just like using the Universal Access
was.
OTOH, the top (Activities) bar in
Same for me:
apt-get install fonts-cantarell
works fine.
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I confirm that
apt-get install fonts-cantarell
mitigates the problem.
The texts, popups and tooltips are now fine, although a couple of icons are
still funny (accessibility and bluetooth -- the mouse-over effect fixes them
though).
Using fglrx driver on ubuntu 11.10, Radeon HD 3600.
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I noticed the top bar gets fixed when I installed cantarell fonts. Something
happens when a font package is installed that fixes most of Gnome Shell. The
tooltips are still distorted, though.
Using fglrx from 11.10 repositories.
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I installed 11.9 and 11.10 and both flickr horribly and some stuff like
hover tool tips are all warped. :-(
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The flickering has gone for me since I disabled some features in CCC.
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Erik woot! That made it usable for me! Thanks
driver:
Unknown
Status in “fglrx-installer” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
New
Status in “gnome-shell” package in Debian:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Major display issues with Gnome Shell on a clean and updated
@Erik Zoltan, @Sketches: can you, please, detail the exact steps? I try
to reproduce your workaround, however I fail to find Large text
option. Thanks.
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I found how to do it. So, for the reference:
Click Activities on the top panel of Gnome Shell. Then type Universal
Access, then ENTER. Then choose Display: Text Size to Large, then
choose again Normal. This will reuslt in partially fixing the fonts in
Gnome Shell.
However, the Nautilus menu bar
AMD AMD Catalyst 11.10 has been released, and according to Phoronix
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTAwODg, this bug was
finally fixed. Can you give it a try??
Here is the link: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-
installer-11-10-x86.x86_64.run
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The blank sceen bug after boot has gone with 11.10. Gnome shell looks
good, but the screen refreshes quite often. Seems the display manger or
window manager crashes and is restarted.
In Unity the AMD Catalyst Control Center is not availible in Unity.
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I tested the 11.10 version of fglrx.
It's almost fixed, the context menus and some objects are still buggy. Can't
make screenshots. Topbar and its menus are fixed.
* Now the installer installs the packages needed for package building.
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Dont know, here it flickers a lot.
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Using fglrx 11.10 (Oneiric), GNOME Shell sometimes get closed when I
open some app or click on some control. As I said, the tooltips, context
menus and some apps gets distorsioned.
I regret that the performance is slower than with the free driver, even
turning off vertical sync in the AMD panel
I'm attaching a screenshot taken with a digital camera since it's hard
to get a picture of this one. This shows the problems I'm having on a
fresh install with gnome shell and all packages up to date out of the
default repositories. One is the font problems in the gnome shell menu,
and the other
I found a small workaround. I went into the universal access menu and
selected Large text. It improved the appearance of the gnome menu,
and the improvement persisted even after I turned off large text.
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Using an ATI 4200 HD upgrading to Catalyst 11.9 did NOT WORK for me, either.
Rainbow effect is solved, and display looks fine for a few second, but soon
gets disorted (window contents diagonally shifted) and instable. Switching to
text console returns a unreadablye display and finally locks
I've followed Steffen's instructions, including installing normal fglrx,
then downloading the ATI driver from
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx,
purching fglrx and fglrx-amdcccle then installing the new drivers. After
a reboot I come to blank screen. I can boot
This worked for me on a configuration with fglrx installed:
1.Download the current ATI driver here:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx
2. Build the driver in terminal and download directory with: sh
ati-driver-installer-11-9-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg
3. Remove
But do you know if fglrx-modaliases_~ is mandatory? Is that file produced
when you build the deb files? I don't have it, maybe that is why I can't
boot into the graphics mode with your recommendations?
Sent from my Android.
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There is no fglrx-modaliases any more. Try to choose recovery mode in
Grub and then just resume. Maybe you should wait until the new fglrx is
in repositories.
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d3ngar, blank screen after installing drivers is another bug
what you are experiencing might be related to this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/855943
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Thanks Steffen klerfayt!
I actually got it working under Steffen's instructions:
Purge fglrx, install the debs generated. Re-boot into recovery (to avoid screen
blank) and then resume normal boot.
This makes nearly everything look smooth. The fonts sometimes are
blurred and in italic on hover,
This is the Ubuntu fglrx driver, not the latest by AMD. With this driver
Gnome shell does not work. You have to compile manually the AMD website
driver and install it over an existing fglrx. Please see the wiki pages
how to do this.
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Same issue here. Here is my context:
$ fglrxinfo
display: :0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6350
OpenGL version string: 4.1.11005 Compatibility Profile Context
$ lspci| grep -i radeon
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI
Thanks.
I tried that:
sudo ./ati-driver-installer-11-9-x86.x86_64.run
But I get this:
[Error]A previous installation of fglrx driver detected to be loaded.
User must uninstall existing fglrx driver
or run install with force option.
Forcing the installation is not recommended.
I also tried to
Alright:
I have found this guide:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
I have tried that in the past. I removed the default driver and
installed these from binaries. My screen blanks during boot.
fglrxinfo
display: :0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
Yes, when it says 'fix released', I would like some information of when
this fix makes it to the end customer.
I have tried re-installing ATI drivers (as per Max Patzlet) := After re-boot I
don't see anything. Had to re-install fglrxdefault packages
I then tried the AMD drivers 11.9 := Same as
This only means that the fix is released, not that it is available. So
far you would have to install fglrx from the ATI website manually. This
means download and compile, see wiki for more information. Best is over
an existing fglrx so that all the xorg stuff is right. So you should
have installed
Hi Steffen,
I would like to do that, but I'm not completely sure how.
I tried the steps outlined here (
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI?highlight=%28ATI%29
)
Unfortunately this means that I get NO picture at all... I then have to boot
into recovery mode and reverse all
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that I received. If so, I'm sorry to spam!
Hi Steffen,
I would like to do that, but I'm not completely sure how.
I tried the steps outlined here (
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI?highlight=%28ATI%29
)
Don't bother with the newest version, gnome-shell is still broken with
fglrx 11.9 (at least on my 5770 GPU).
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For me it works ok. I have got a 5750. Are you sure you installed the
correct preperitary driver of the ATI web site? You probably have the
open source driver running. The version should be 2:8.892 as shown in
synaptics and must be enabled by xorg, means shown active in the
additional drivers
Why is this marked as fix released (also at debian)? There are updated
packages with which the bug is less severe, but it is still there.
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this bug affects me too.
ubuntu 11.10, catalyst 11.8, gnome-shell is unusable, i am staying in fallback
gnome3 mode.
with open source video driver gnome-shell works fine. (but i have to use the
catalyst to have top of opengl perfomance )
Radeon 5550.
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Had the same Problem, after installing the fglrx driver i got the
rainbow bar in gnome. This worked for me :
sudo /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh # (if it exists)
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
sudo
Thanks, Max. This worked for me, too, but of course it means flgrx is no
longer installed.
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WaitI just realized I have no problems running Gnome Shell on the
same machine with Fedora 15 running from a Live CD. Are we barking up
the right tree with this bug? Has anyone else tried running another
Gnome 3.x distro with success, that can't get it to work in Ubuntu?
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But with the Fedora 15 Live CD you'd be using the open source drivers -
GNOME shell works fine with those, last time I tried. (I had Fedora 15
installed for awhile but had all kinds of pain with broken packages,
system settings, etc.) It's a bit of a hassle to get fglrx drivers
installed on
Good point, Sean. Thanks.
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I had this problem (the rainbow bar) with 11.8, when I installed 11.9
from the ATI website, it solved the bar problem but created a new issue.
Now, whenever I run Skype, the notification bar becomes unstable. The
Activities window is also unstable. Gnome Shell 3.2.
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Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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i have same problem with ubuntu 11.10 with all updates
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I have the latest updated 11.10 and I still have this problem with the
rainbow top bar in Gnome Shell. I have a AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
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I get that black and white rainbow at the start.
Goes back to proper after five seconds.
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I have the latest updated 11.10 and I still have this problem with the
rainbow top bar in Gnome Shell. I have a AMD Radeon HD
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It's basically the same for me with 11.9 vs. 11.8; a slightly different
mess, but just as unusable.
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New catalyst is out, so can anyone try does it fix the issue?
Quote from Arch's fglrx maintainer:
catalyst 11.9 is online, although strange thing:
the URL of the driver has changed - was: ati-driver-
installer-11-8-x86.x86_64.run , is ati-driver-
installer-11.9.x86.x86_64.run, i actually found
11.9 did not helps for me. Less garbage in gnome-shell session, but followed by
gnome-shell crash.
Garbage on screen on KDE session. I have to downgrade to 11.8 :-(
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I don't use gnome so haven't tested it, but with 11-9 the performance is
muuuch better for me on KDE - with the exceptions of 4 lockups (xserver
segfaults) in 1 hour -- downgrading to 11.8 for now. Does anybody else
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** Also affects: fglrx via
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Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Status: Unknown = Confirmed
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OK, although it's been my experience with Ubuntu up to and including
11.04 that with the open source driver most games with 3D graphics are
unplayable - even something like SuperTuxKart. So I'd rather have
Unity+Games than GNOME Shell with no games, especially since my
preferences lean towards
I'll try installing the latest drivers from the AMD website at some
point, although Unity's working just fine for me at the moment so I'm
not too bothered!
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I just want to add that if the open source graphics driver works, you
should try that. From re-reading the comments on the other bug report, I
think the fglrx update to fix this won't even be released until after
11.10 is.
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