I have just installed the Kubuntu 9.04 rc and then enabled the proprietary ATI drivers that come with 9.04 rc and found that enablind desktop effects is still broken - I end up with a black screen and unusable desktop. I had do Ctrl-Alt-F4, log in, then edit kwinrc manually to get back to usable desktop. glxinfo reports a driver of 2.1.8575
If I then download and manually install the latest ATI drivers which they describe as 9.4 on ATI dev website I am able to get things working smoothly and can reliably enable/disable desktop effects. flxinfo reports a driver of 2.1.8591. This driver also fixed by Kubuntu 9.04 beta that I had been keeping up to date. I am about to do some more testing with the Kubuntu 9.04 rc, but given the significant improvement w.r.t enabling desktop effects with the proprietary driver is looks like the final Kubuntu 9.04 really should go out with the latest ATI driver, anything less and we'd be shipping that breaks when using ATI hardware. Kudos to AMD/ATI for the improvements with the drivers. Robert. -- Enabling desktop effects causes desktop black out, when using ATI fglrx drivers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355159 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
