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cairo produces black background in the Activities overview in gnome-shell with AMD catalyst driver

Submitted by Stephane

Assigned to Chris Wilson @ickle

Link to original bug (#56657)

Description

cairo produces a black background (overriding the gnome wallpaper) in the Activities overview in gnome-shell using the proprietary AMD Catalyst fglrx driver.

System information: Arch Linux, kernel 3.6.4-1 X.Org X Server 1.13.0 cairo 1.12.6-2 gnome-shell 3.6.1 GPU AMD Radeon HD 6450 running catalyst-utils 12.9-0.1

Workarounds:

  • Rolling back to cairo 1.12.2-3 fixes the problem using the AMD Catalyst driver.
  • Bug can not be reproduced using cairo 1.12.6-2 with the open-source ati driver (1:6.14.6-2).

Version: 1.12.6

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