Gnome 3 GFX Corruption

[its_jon]

Hi.

I just installed Gnome 3 from synaptic after upgrading to the latest Ubuntu.

Unfortunately I have corruption of the top bar and text.

Its a Toshiba Satellite with ati

Where to start ?????

[sikander3786]

I guess you are running Oneiric. Lets make sure by getting to a Terminal (by pressing the <Super> key and searching the Dash) and running this command:


lsb_release -a

If it says 11.10, you can easily run Gnome 3.

Now the question is did you only install some of the Gnome 3 packages or installed the gnome-shell package also, which is what you probably want to run. From Terminal:


dpkg -l gnome-shell
dpkg -l gnome-session*

Please post the outputs.

Regarding the corruption of top bar and the text, run this command to find if you can actually run Unity and Gnome Shell:


/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p

Please post the output of this one also.

[typhoon_tip]

Its a Toshiba Satellite with ati

Where to start ?????

Well if you installed FGLRX driver, start with using Unity lol

Joking apart, Gnome 3 is not compatible yet with FGLRX (or the opposite, who knows...).

The latest FGLRX driver from AMD website is much better, but the screen still flickers when notification appears.

[its_jon]

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
evelyn@evelyn-Satellite-L300D:~$ dpkg -l gnome-shell
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii gnome-shell 3.2.1-0ubuntu1 graphical shell for the GNOME desktop


dpkg -l gnome-session*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii gnome-session 3.2.1-0ubuntu1 GNOME Session Manager - GNOME 3 session
ii gnome-session- 3.2.1-0ubuntu1 GNOME Session Manager - Minimal runtime
ii gnome-session- 0.28-0ubuntu11 GNOME session log in and log out sound event
ii gnome-session- 3.2.1-0ubuntu1 GNOME Session Manager - common files
ii gnome-session- 3.2.1-0ubuntu1 GNOME Session Manager - GNOME fallback sessi



Not software rendered: yes
Not blacklisted: yes
GLX fbconfig: yes
GLX texture from pixmap: yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program: yes
GL fragment program: yes
GL vertex buffer object: yes
GL framebuffer object: yes
GL version is 1.4+: yes

Unity 3D supported: yes


hope this is what you need....thanks for the support !

[typhoon_tip]

Post the result of this command:

update-alternatives --get-selections | grep gl_conf

[its_jon]

i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf auto /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf
x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf auto /usr/lib/fglrx/alt_ld.so.conf

thank you for the help

[its_jon]

could not get it to work with that chipset.... new laptop now though...and Gnome 3 working very well