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) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/748137 Title: unity rendering broken with fglrx (black masks) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp