Hi, I've filled that bug report. I don't see a much brighter future on ATI since in the last times they lost 2 very important people that were working on the Linux drivers (further info searchable on Phoronix). It could be nice that someone from our X.org team could contact them regarding those issues with GNOME3. Unity suffered from a few problems with ATI proprietary drivers also, but according to it's changelogs they appeared to be fixed now. At least the radeon DRM driver is working OK for me, though with default settings it overheats a lot my laptop (easilly worked out by forcing the low energy setting profile on rc.local). I'm not really sure if GNOME devs can help with this particular issue. ATI/AMD should be releasing a new driver in the upcoming days following their monthly releases schedule, lets wait and see. I'm also looking forward to see if can have some joy in the future with G3 and ATI. NM On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Richard Brown <rdb@ccb.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi All,

I'm having a heck of a time trying to get GNOME 3 running on a current generation iMac with its ATI Mobility 4670 graphics card

fglrx works but has some horrific issues with the activities bar (as covered here http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=99 ) and multiple monitors (no bug filed yet, but basically the second screen's output is horrifically corrupted)

The default radeon driver appears to be out of the question - kernel seems to lockup whenever the module is loaded. Some bugs floating about imply this is a kernel issue. This problem is so severe I need to add fglrx as an Add-On product during installation or else I can't get the install to continue after the file copy.

I've tried but I cant seem to get the radeonHD driver to work either - constantly complaining about No Screens Found.

I'm not having any issues on my nvidia or intel machines, really making me hate AMD/ATI now

Anyone got any ideas on how to get GNOME 3 working on this most frustrating bucket of bolts?

Ilmehtar from IRC here - finally got around to using these lists (Yes yes, I know, I took too long)

Richard Brown Systems Engineering Team Leader City College Brighton and Hove

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