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Distorted Gnome Shell on Ubuntu 11.10

Asked by Volodymyr Hryniuk

Menus and titles of Gnome 3 shell are displayed distorted (Ubuntu 11.10). Proprietary AMD drivers are installed.
My hardware: HP-625 with AMD Athlon II Dual-Core P360 and ATI Radeon HD 4200.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Does it happen as a new user?

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Volodymyr Hryniuk (blackseaer) said : 		#2

I have just one user on my system.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

That's why I said 'new'. Your OS can hold literally BILLIONS of local users.............

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Best estimablesir (estimablesir) said : 		#4

I had significant corruption with the AMD proprietary drivers that are installed via jockey-gtk. When I removed these and installed the drivers from the AMD website, everything started working correctly.

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Volodymyr Hryniuk (blackseaer) said : 		#5

estimablesir thanks a lot! I've installed driver from AMD website and now all works great!!!

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Volodymyr Hryniuk (blackseaer) said : 		#6

Thanks estimablesir, that solved my question.