Bug#561206: 561206

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 18 février 2010 à 13:54 +1000, Lachlan a écrit :
> I've got my ati machine back in action but now i'm having worse problems.
> 
> My hd3870 is running fairly well with the open source driver but
> running gnome-shell the desktop is corrupted as well as slow and
> unusable. the overlay looks normal but the windows, the desktop and
> icons in the top panel tray are corrupted with either black or
> gibberish looking shapes.

gnome-shell will not run correctly without DRI2. See
http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/19346.html for how to make it work with
Radeon cards. It works for me, although slowly.

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