rv250 (radeon 9000) black screen in Compiz (Karmic)

Glenn Holmer shadowm at lyonlabs.org
Tue Oct 27 11:46:07 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 15:23 +0100, Jonathan Hudson wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:35:56 -0500, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> 
> >I loaded up the RC of Karmic on my test box (Radeon RV250 a.k.a. Radeon
> >9000) and found that my screen background goes black when I enable
> >Compiz (application windows are still visible).  Nothing is found when
> >Compiz is "Searching for available drivers" or when the "Hardware
> >Drivers" app is run.
> >
> >Has anybody else seen this and/or have a workaround?
> 
> Probably this:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/444139
> 
> (see workaround in c. 3rd posting).

Thanks, seems to have fixed it for me.

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