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Problems with UI rendering in Linux with AMD graphics

Problems with UI rendering in Linux with AMD graphics

Hello, I have a ui rendering problem in Linux.

so it's hard to choose music.

 

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I use Linux Mint 17 with Cinnamon,
in the previous version of the Spotify Preview it was working without render fails.

 

System informations

Spotify 0.9.10.17

Linux Mint 17 with Cinnamon (64-Bit)

Grafik: AMD R7 integrated graphics (Kaveri APU)

with current AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta drivers.

 

the terminal does not show errors or warnings.

 

What can i do?

Thx

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Was troubleshooting a similar issue with nvidia graphics on linux earlier:
http://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/Spotify-for-linux-after-update-blank-page...

It's worth trying the launch flags mentioned in that topic to see if any of them work for you.

Peter
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Hello Peter,

thanks for your help.

 

I have tested your solutions with follow flags: "-disable-gpu" and " --disable-accelerated-layers --disable-accelerated-fixed-root-background" but nothing has changed.

On another system with nouveau drivers will it works.

 

it is perhaps the desktop environment?
I think Cinnamon is fully rendered with gpu, I try to test it

 

Hello,

 

I am using Linux Mint 17.1 with Cinnamon, and also had rendering problems with and AMD Radeon R7 graphics integrated GPU. After startup a banner appeared and it stayed on top of the other layers, and the edit toolbar was completely inactive.

I tried it with MATE, wihout composition, but the problem still remained...

I also tried launching from command line with the gpu disable flags, with no success.

 

Finally, I removed the config folder of spotify (.config/spotify), and after restarting Spotify and logging in everything is fine now!

 

This is a strange problem, because i tried spotify on 2 other machines with Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon, one with intel integrated gpu, the other with an nvidia card, and there were no problems with rendering at all.

 

I think this problem has something to do with the newer AMD APU's or GPU's.

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