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cinnamon desktop error

Postby masuch on Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:34 am

Hi,

I have a problem with look and feel of cinamon dekstop. Look atr attached picture.
Thank you for any help.
Reinstallation did not help.

Regards,
Martin
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Re: cinnamon desktop error

Postby kc1di on Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:57 am

could you give us a little more information on your machine.
video card for one thing
model cpu etc.

Then we might be of help.
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Re: cinnamon desktop error

Postby masuch on Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:07 pm

thank you for helping me out.

uname -a
Linux 3.2.0-25-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 20:30:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

glxinfo|grep -i opengl
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
OpenGL version string: 4.2.11631 Compatibility Profile Context
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.20
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
OpenGL version string: 4.2.11631 Compatibility Profile Context
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.20
OpenGL extensions:


cat /proc/cpuinfo
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 42
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
stepping : 7
...

catalyst 11.4 fglrx driver works properly (except video hardware support).

motherboard:
description: Motherboard
product: Maximus IV Extreme
vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
physical id: 0
version: Rev 1.xx
serial: 108997450000149
slot: To be filled by O.E.M.
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
physical id: 0
version: 3208
date: 04/13/2012

please do not hesitate to ask me about more information.

regards,
Martin
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Re: cinnamon desktop error

Postby bimsebasse on Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:19 pm

The desktop in the screenshot is not Cinnamon but Gnome Classic, which means your graphics card/driver isn't supported by Cinnamon. Try to add restricted proprietary drivers if you haven't.
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Re: cinnamon desktop error

Postby masuch on Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:55 pm

I mentioned and from glxinfo it is visible that I have catalyst 12.4 (mistyped version in previous post) version installed - (I am pretty sure that it is correctly installed.)
In virtualbox it looks nice :-)
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Re: cinnamon desktop error

Postby masuch on Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:41 pm

Anybody can help ?
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