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fglrx-installer package

UNUSABLE GNOME-SHELL/UNITY using FGLRX Mobility Radeon HD 4550

Bug #591019 reported by lesnoland on 2010-06-07

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1058040: fglrx-installer not working with AMD Radeon/Mobility Radeon HD 2000-4000 cards in Quantal+. Edit Remove

This bug affects 16 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-shell

Greetings,

After trying gnome-shell and unity on my Intel graphics card, I decided to install Lucid, and give it a try on my Sony Vaio VGN-NW21SF Notebook, equiped with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550 graphics card.

Software info:

Operating System: Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

Video Driver: fglrx 8.732-0ubuntu1 (ati website 10.5 catalyst), repository.

Gnome Shell: repository, ricoz, last build.

Unity: repository

Report: I experience the following: constant flickers, rendering problems (text is deformed, windows are not rendered), basically its unusable.

I understand that gnome-shell is still in beta, and it will not be included in Maverick as default, but how about Unity.

This is a serious problem, which basically affects many users (I saw numerous complaints about ATI) , so something must be done.

If you have a solution, or you know what could be the problem, please provide us with information.

Thank you.

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Samuel Kogler (daasdingo) wrote on 2010-06-14:

glxinfo.txt Edit (16.4 KiB, text/plain)

can confirm this:

daaasdingo@daaasdingo-desktop:~$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 4290
OpenGL version string: 3.3.9836 Compatibility Profile Context

catalyst 10.5 / 8.723.1

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lesnoland (lesnoland) wrote on 2010-06-15:

spoke with gnome-shell developers, they motivated its not their fault but ati, and that the driver is closed source and they can not help with that. i fixed it by installing the radeon driver from xorg edgers ppa and all works fine.

https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

i have an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550

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Samuel Kogler (daasdingo) wrote on 2010-06-15:

ok thank you for the answer,
i will see if i can get full hardware acceleration with this,
but i'm not intending to actually use gnome shell anyway(until its ready and i actually like it)

Matt Zimmerman (mdz) on 2010-09-13

affects:

gnome-shell (Ubuntu) → fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)

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Bartosz Zasieczny (siekacz) wrote on 2010-10-09:

Currently we haven't any suitable opensource driver for R800. And that's a really BIG problem. Unity doesn't work, nor GNOME Shell - both using Mutter.

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VixsLee (vixsandlee) wrote on 2010-11-03:

On the mobility 4200 I have gnome-shell from the repo's lock the system when I run it (either via ALT + F2, or from gdm with the Gnome3 option)

If I build from source, it runs slow as heck and also suffers from some serious gamma / brightness corruption

Built from source

http://pokemonger.com/ati/image1.jpg

What it should look like

http://pokemonger.com/ati/image2.jpg

using the open drivers it works fine, but then I am seriously limited on 3D with my card, and I play a couple of games

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Lukas Jahns (lukas-jahns) wrote on 2010-12-11:

it's the same bug for me using Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick meerkat) with a radeon 4225 and the fglrx driver.
if you use chromium and pop up the menu, the whole screen flickers heavily and chromium enters the fullscreen mode. Oo

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) on 2011-08-16