GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 649666
Top menu bar is drawn as a rainbow and icons are not rasterized properly (ATI/fglrx)
Last modified: 2013-01-06 19:41:50 UTC
Issue: When I start Gnome3, the top menu bar is composed of an odd horizontal rainbow gradient instead of the correct translucent black color. The icons are also not rasterized properly (they look perforated and dotty, grayscale). This problem persists unless I start gnome3 in fall back mode. I have heard this problem can be avoided by using the open source Radeon driver. That's not an option, because radeon does not work well with 3d graphics at all on this system. Perhaps this is a problem with fglrx, if so, I really hope AMD will fix it! Graphics Card: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350] Kernel: Linux tralfamadore 2.6.38-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 3 07:40:34 CEST 2011 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9750 Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux Driver: I'm using the catalyst-test drivers from arch linux's AUR. After examining the PKGBUILD, I found that it is using this installer: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/f/fglrx-installer/fglrx-installer_8.840.orig.tar.gz Incase this helps, this is the entire PKGBUILD (maybe there is related information in it. I'm just including it for good measure) http://pastebin.ca/2054886 Other Details: I am using multiple monitors on the same card. I believe this is called Big Desktop. Thanks for your good work guys
To be clear, I mean the icons in the top menu specifically. Other icons work fine.
Can you post a screenshot? In general the proprietary AMD drivers have always had problems with gnome-shell. If the latest mesa driver doesn't work for you I'd recommend you to file a bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mesa .
Created attachment 191316 [details] fglrx screen shot I'm affected by the same bug (see screenshot). The interface corruption starts with the top panel and its icons. If you use the shell longer the corruption spreads until all icons and even some interface elements get filled with random memory. Gnome-Shell: 3.0.2 GPU: ATI Technologies Inc RV770 [Radeon HD 4850] Driver: fglrx 1:11-6-2 Distro: Debian wheezy This bug is probably the same issue: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652029
I also have rainbow colored top bar and distorted icons (they do appear right when hovering though), also the icon from the active application show correctly. Refreshing (ALT+F2, r) does not help for me. Driver: AMD Catalyst 11.8 GPU: R5450 - MD512D3H/LP (MSI Radeon HD5450) Distro: Fedora Core 15 x64 The odd thing is that applications do show up correctly, is there something special about displaying the bar?
Is this still a problem in gnome-shell 3.2, and if so which driver and driver version do you use?
Marking NEEDINFO as of comment #5
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!