11.10 Gnome Shell doesn't work properly

[Western_freak]

Yes, I just tried as well and got the same result.
How can I revert it to being usable again?

Posting again just to say that I managed to get it back on track by re-installing fglrx.

[Legendary_Bibo]

I just stuck with the Radeon/Gallium drivers and I've had no issues with Gnome Shell.

[armanja]

Antoine Brunet: Thank you so much! I was thinking of ditching ubuntu for fedora as well, but your fix link worked perfectly! Absolutely fantastic post!

To clarify for others who view this thread with the same problem, this is the code to input into the terminal to completely remove fglrx and reinstall ati drivers:

1. sudo /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh # (if it exists) edit: mine did not
2. sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx
3. sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg- video-radeon
4. sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
5. sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core
6. sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

After that, just restart your system and choose GNOME at login. Everything works perfectly and looks fantastic!

With this fix and the one linuxman94 posted, I'm going to consider this problem solved!

This helps me alot man. Mine, asus x52 (f3sa motherboard) with ati mobility radeon hd2600 - Gnome 3 n unity works well.

[tmt345]

Ok, I installed Ubuntu 11.10 and I installed gnome-shell using the instructions here:

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...TI.27s_site.29

Everything seems to be working just fine except that when I drag a window the windows are little bit overly flashy and there is an above average delay if you know what I mean.

When I run the "fgl_glxgears" command the terminal spat out "11407 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2281.400 FPS" Does that mean my drivers are working good?

[ian_balisy]

Ok, I installed Ubuntu 11.10 and I installed gnome-shell using the instructions here:

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...TI.27s_site.29

Everything seems to be working just fine except that when I drag a window the windows are little bit overly flashy and there is an above average delay if you know what I mean.

When I run the "fgl_glxgears" command the terminal spat out "11407 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2281.400 FPS" Does that mean my drivers are working good?

Thanks for the link! Did some searching and this method, when followed properly for each individual case, works well. Also, that FPS seems very high, not exactly sure what is meant by these numbers in that context.

[d3ngar]

I have no idea why the forum posted this here...

Sorry, wrong thread

[ian_balisy]

d3ngar: Thanks for the warning. Did you get GNOME SHELL working in any other way, not mentioned here?

[d3ngar]

I have no idea why this post came up here now... Ubuntu forums is giving me a hard time!

Well, it sort of works. I just have this horrible graphic bug.

The window overview works fine. The top bar is broken. Some Gnome-Shell strings display fine, but others are blurred. Will attach some screenshots.
On occasion I also see what looks like a Unity-like top navigation bar.

Watch this space....

Screenshot 1
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Screenshot 3

(also Ubuntu One is kinda slow to sync)

I then saw that this is an open bug

[d3ngar]

Okay, I also tried the drivers from the and website. 11.9, as recommended.

Unfortunately this also meant that absolutely no graphics were displayed and I again had to use the recovery mode to install the native fglrx packages.

The graphic bugs are very bad and the I don't want to use Unity...

[picciottino]

Same problem here!

I'm using Unity (I kinda like it ) until a real fix is out. Don't wanna mess it all just because of Gnome... =P