GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 652029
[fglrx] Gnome Shell problems with ATI (fglrx) closed source driver
Last modified: 2013-06-17 11:10:14 UTC
Description of problem: With ATI fglrx driver, gnome shell is totally messed up. I can use fedora 15 only with gnome classic (and compiz enabled and working). With that configuration, it's all ok...smooth and perfect. Gnome shell is unusuable (see the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9HVwi_AgtY, or the picture at http://s0.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/2d/5a/02/2d5a0247e02ba4449749ef5ad7e37da505063514_wmlg.jpg - top bar problem and the red circled zone) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 15 xorg-x11-server-Xorg.x86_64 1.10.1-14.fc15 xorg-x11-drv-catalyst.x86_64 11.4-1.fc15 @rpmfusion-nonfree xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs.x86_64 11.4-1.fc15 @rpmfusion-nonfree How reproducible: Simply use gnome shell Actual results: See the photo: http://s0.i1.picplzthumbs.com/upload/img/2d/5a/02/2d5a0247e02ba4449749ef5ad7e37da505063514_wmlg.jpg See the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9HVwi_AgtY Expected results: Normal use of gnome shell Additional info: fglrx driver from rpmfusion Ati radeon hd 3400 series
fglrx is known to have problems with gnome-shell and trying to work around its bugs is low priority AFAIK (I'm not a maintainer). You'd have a better experience with the free radeon driver. You can also try to report the bug to AMD.
Hey, I have the same problem with Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneric) and gnome-shell with the fglrx-driver (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series). Is there any reaction by AMD?
It seems nobody filed a bug to them, so you can do that, and maybe you'll get reactions... Please post the link here if you do so. (Or you can give up and try the free driver. :-p)
An unofficial AMD bug is http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=99
I've found that bug too, installed the new driver (flgrx 11.9) and now gnome-shell works almost perfect :). (But now I have also problems on startup - the xserver isn't starting automatically :/ )
flgrx 11.9 does indeed fix the top icon corruption, but many drop-down menus and dialog boxes are still corrupted (diagonally skewed and wrapped), which is a show-stopper as one interacts with those quite a lot. The Overview and Message Tray animations cause full-screen corruption but that I could live with.
duplicate of bug 632098
Nevermind, my previous comment was the Debian bug number.
guys, I'm having the same problem that Martin Dengler I hope someone could find a solution, because the worse case for this problem is when de drop-down menu has lots of elements, like in my case de markers of firefox, when i click to see them all the desktop crash and have a restart, but in some cases the desktop doesn't start again. I cant even take a snapshot of this because the desktop disapear and appear again wiht a blank snapshot.
First of all, let me state that the issues are actually due to bugs in AMD's fglrx driver. Please try the latest driver (currently 12.1) and give brief feedback. I am glad to say that in recent 2-3 months some major issues have been addressed by AMD, others still remain. I say that judging by the comments people give and by my own experience. Graphical corruptions and slanted graphics like http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=99 http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=339 should have been fixed in many cases, according to comments. Please try the latest driver and try filing bugs in that inofficial AMD bug reporting site. Look for already existing reports first. Known issues remain, like a segmentation fault http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=408 that was also reported in GNOME bugzilla, and general poor performance of the Shell. For bad performance with gnome shell, as a workaround try adding export CLUTTER_VBLANK=none to /etc/environment and restart X. It might help.
So - still an issue with current driver versions?
No feedback in 6 months :/ The only conclusion is that the issues are gone.
OK, let's close it then ...