Fedora/Gnome3 : Display Problem on my hardware.

[Madhurjya Roy]

It's quite similar to that, just more severe! In my case, when I open
the 'activities' menu, there are square and triangular lines spread
all over and almost none of the icons render correctly.

Another thing worth pointing out is that applications are not affected
by it. Most of the applications I ran (Nautilus, GIMP, Gnome Terminal,
Application Settings) rendered correctly.

The problem mainly affects the panel on the top, the calendar view
that opens up from there (like the one in your picture) and the
'activities' menu.

I'm downloading the Fedora live image, once it is done, I'll boot up
and share some screenshots. I guess that'll provide a better idea of
it.

Madhurjya Roy

On 13/12/2014, Frederic Muller <fred at cm17.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Does it look like something like this: http://snag.gy/AGPaq.jpg
>
> I've started having the problem on F20 after a xorg update about 3 weeks
> ago and it has stayed. I upgraded (new install though) to F21 to get the
> same result unfortunately.
>
> It's also a Radeon (HD 6770 though) card.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Fred
>
> On 12/12/2014 10:49 PM, Madhurjya Roy wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> My old  PC MoBo recently died and so, I built a  new PC with
>> the following hardware specification :
>>
>> * Processor : AMD A4-6300K 3.7 GHz Dual Core APU with integrated
>> Radeon HD 8370D GPU
>>
>> * MoBo : MSI A58M-E33
>>
>> * RAM : 4 GB Corsair Value RAM 1600 MHz.
>>
>> * HDD : 500 GB WD Caviar @ 7200 rpm
>>
>> * Monitor : 19 inch Samsung SyncMaster at 1400 X 900 pixels @ 60-75 Hz
>> refresh rate
>>
>> So, I went ahead and popped in the Fedora 21 Workstation Disc.
>> Anaconda worked well
>> and installed Fedora 21.
>>
>> But as soon as I restarted my PC and logged in I found the desktop
>> flickering! I moved the mouse pointer and it flickered even more
>> vigorously and when I pulled through the activities hot corner, I
>> could barely see the icons, which appeared like distorted squares.
>>
>> Somehow, I managed to open the terminal. All the text in the terminal
>> were clearly visible, I installed Xfce desktop and to my surprise it
>> worked fine, text and icon everything was clear and perfectly
>> usable. Next, I installed KDE and it worked as well. I really had trouble
>> understanding the wobbly widgety interface, though! So, I assumed the
>> problem is with Gnome 3.
>>
>> I reinstalled the complete Gnome desktop and alas, the problem
>> persisted! I have used Fedora 20 for quite some time on my
>> laptop, so, I booted a live image of Fedora 20, that I had had flashed
>> onto a pen drive and still there was the same problem.
>>
>> Frustrated, I gave up and installed Ubuntu, Unity worked well but
>> when I installed Gnome3, I was back where I was, running a completely
>> graphically distorted UI!
>>
>> I've since changed many distros (without Gnome as DE) and all of them
>> worked fine. Windows 8.1 worked fluidly as well! I am currently using
>> Ubuntu 14.10 (with Unity as DE). I found it quite close to Gnome3.
>>
>> However, I would still like to use Fedora and since, I'm using this as
>> a multimedia PC, so Gnome3 is still my preference.
>>
>> From my observations, it seems to be a Gnome 3 hardware incompatibility
>> issue.
>>
>> I've tried changing refreshing rate, resolution and colour depth and
>> nothing could solve the issue! Even switching to the proprietary AMD
>> drivers didn't work out.
>>
>> Should I file a bug report on BugZilla?
>>
>> If anyone's got some idea, please help!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Madhurjya Roy
>>
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