Ubuntu 11.04 Unity: Launcher Icons not rendered on ATI host

[takkat]

After installing GA Ubuntu 11.04 Natty alpha guest runs nice in VBox 4.0.0. on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid hosts. However launcher icons from Unity are only rendered in a NVidia (proprietary driver) host machine but not in a host running with open source radeon driver for ATI 780G. Launcher functionality seems o.k. but all icons are plain black.

Has anybody else seen this issue? Is there a workaround?

Tak

[Sasquatch]

Get the proprietary ATi driver or use the RadeonHD driver instead. Unity requires 3D afaik and the Radeon driver does not handle that too well. In fact, your Host has limited 3D capabilities: it may in fact run Compiz, but it doesn't have enough to give 3D to VB. Blame ATi/AMD for it, or the developers of the open source driver. This is NOT a VB problem.

[takkat]

Get the proprietary ATi driver or use the RadeonHD driver instead.

Thank you for your reply. AFAIK radeonhd driver is now deprecated. Since my ATi machine is my productive system I can not install eperimental drivers (i.e. the proprietary Ati driver ). Hope there will be some further improvement to the open source driver. At least I'm happy to be able to test Ubuntu 11.04 and Unity on a VBox in my NVidia machine.

[Sasquatch]

Last thing I know from the opensource drivers for ATi is that the radeon driver is for legacy devices and radeonHD is for newer ones. So in that aspect, radeon is deprecated and radeonHD is what you must use. Checking the wiki page again on x.org, I see new progress. Well, whatever, ATi sucks anyway .