AMD Radeon HD 3450 driver broken in 13.04

[Colin Law]

On 26 April 2013 18:20, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> I updated my Toshiba Satellite Pro P300 from 12.04 this afternoon --
> and now it's comprehensively broken.
>
> This is apparently a known problem - see:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2073279
>
> &
>
> http://www.linuxine.com/story/ubuntu-1304-raring-ringtail-ati-radeon-hd-3xxx-and-4xxx-problems-again
>
> There is a workaround, involving downgrading to an older version of
> X.org and AMD's legacy driver, but this workaround has issues with
> Unity, which appear to affect me.
>
> https://launchpad.net/~makson96/+archive/fglrx
>
> I have installed the fix as described and now my graphics are back up
> to their normal, full resolution, but Unity will not start. I can
> start Metacity manually, by pressing Ctrl-Alt-T for a borderless
> terminal window and then running
>
> metacity --replace &
>
> ... but that only gives me a window manager, not a full desktop.
>
> I am currently wondering whether to reinstall 12.04 or switch distros
> or at least desktops.

I don't know about the particular problem, but have you tried
selecting unity-2d at the login prompt?

Colin