[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#654995: Bug#654995: fglrx-driver: Unstable and buggy operation of fglrx with Gnome 3 and HD4290 (RS880D, 890GX chipset)

[Patrick Matthäi]

Am 07.01.2012 20:12, schrieb Peter Schaefer:
> Package: fglrx-driver
> Version: 1:11-12-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> 
> 
> fglrx does produce many drawing problems when used with Gnome 3 / Mutter. An
> example that can be experienced is listed in the following Ubuntu Bug:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/666715
> 
> especially the URL mentioned:
> http://www.martineve.com/unity_drawing_problem.png
> 
> That horizontal slant mostly drawn in menus, but occasionally occurs in other
> windows also. On resizable windows it can often be remedied by altering the
> window's size. It seems to trigger whenever the window has horizontal size that
> is not even (i.e. modifing the size pixel-by-pixel toggles the slant on/off).
> 
> In addition the screen shows heavy flicker when Mutter is started (i.e. after
> login in GDM) and also on random times during 'normal' operation.
> 
> Google Earth also chrashes right on startup.
> 
> None of the problems above occur in the 2D fallback mode of Gnome 3 or when the
> open-source driver is used. However, this is not an option if one wants to use
> OpenCL.
> 
> This mail was written with the open-source driver active.
> 

Hi,

fglrx 12-1 has got *some* fixes for e.g. gnome3 foo. So can you please
retest it?

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