Unity crashes on startup with rs690m

For me when I try to start Unity with the boot CD of ubuntu netbook edition 10.10, the screen blink and I can't do anything. I also try to use it with a Virtual Box and My pc freeze and can't do anything except boot.

@Didier - please attach the output of lspci -vvnn

This is probably fixed in Maverick by the recently added mesa 7.9~git20100909-0ubuntu1 package. Could both of you please update and test, then let us know the results?

Still doesn't work. The white covers the entire screen now and I never see the panel--the white just flicks away and comes back again.

I also get a crash if I run unity with --popup; I assume it's the same one, so I've attached a backtrace.

Here the attachments. I did not install unity but try with the Beta CD . So I'm gonna wait the next beta to test the fix.

Thanks to both of you.

Didier - There won't be a second Maverick beta. The next milestone is the Release Candidate on September 30th 2010 - see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickReleaseSchedule
It would be nice if you could test with the new Mesa version (mentioned in comment #8) before then.

Well I upgraded My lucid to maverick beta and then installed ubuntu-netbook , but it does not work either. Same thing as beta the screen blink between white and my background and nothing happen I had to reboot.

Did you update the mesa packages after updating to Maverick beta?

Yes I checked that I had the correct mesa package installed before making my test .

OK, thanks. Just checking.

Thanks for testing. Sorry to hear that it still doesn't work.

unity now tells if you can't run it at startup and will logout you nicely.

There is also a new mesa waiting for approval to get wider hardware support.

Well I don't know if your mesa has been approved, but here when I test unity. I does not blink anymore, but I don't see the icons and panel. I can click on the transparent panel and start the software. It also have square tool tip that pop on mouse hover the left panel.

Didier, could you attach a screenshot?

Yes sure, here the screenshot. When I Log out, I see briefly the left panel correctly with the icons.

reopening the bug then

Without CLUTTER_VBLANK=none: nothing works (even tooltips) just panel background & wallpaper
With CLUTTER_VBLANK=none: Same as Didier screenshoot + crashes
Video: Radeon X1200

Now with the natty daily build I see the Dock, but the text is a little unclear.You have work to do to get the text clear and etc. But you are definitively on the right track. Hope to see improovement over time. The daily build are really a good thing to keep testing new stuff.

Hi Didier, could you please attach a screenshot so we can see the unclear text? Hopefully it's something we can fix, I'm marking as incomplete pending that, thanks!

Here the screenshot. Thank you.

After 10 days I post my screenshot this bug is still classed incomplete ? What happen with this?

@Didier Levesque, A lot of bugs are being filed for Unity, rarely one such as this might slip through the cracks. I'v set the status back to confirmed for this bug.
When you have submitted the requested information, You can do change the status yourself.
Anyone can do this once the info requested has been submitted.

This bug have been fixed in Natty Alpha 2