Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: kdebase-kde4
When i turned on the kwin effects for the first time i got a black screen that
was flashing ( as if it was trying to do stuff ) and it settled to a blank (
black ) screen without a mouse. after restarting the x server i get a login
screen but after loging in and trying to load the desktop all this happens
again every time i log in.
The set up for that was a Dell 1501 laptop that uses a Radeon Xpress 1100
graphics card and all i had were the drivers included ubuntu.
so i went off and installed the fglrx non free drivers ( version 8.443.1
for my card ) and tried again to login to the session again with
success! the effects were fantastic, but were a bit hard on my old
laptop so i tried to turn them off and the desktop went haywire! only
half drawing everything, sometimes having active windows drawn but
others not drawing all of it. when draging the windows they seemed to do
alright.
so i restart the x session and everything is ok again. i mess around
with everything else and decide to test each of the desktop effects to
see which are slowing me down the most, so i go and enable only the
advanced window managment ones ( and one other but i don't remember
which one it was, it was enabled the first time though and worked then )
and i have the same blank screen.
this time i have the right drivers and no matter how many times i
restart the x session it won't show anything after logging in. i also
restarted and then logged in with the same result.
Enough info for you guys?
** Affects: kdebase-kde4 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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blank screen with kwin effects
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182288
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