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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I've done this twice today.

I have a clean install of Oneiric with all updates as of today. I have a
Radeon HD5850 card and the open drivers works perfectly out of the box,
but I was recommended to install the proprietary ones all the same. So I
gave it a go, and found that they were not anywhere near as good as the
open ones, but caused lots of issues and were slower. So I removed them,
and now when I log in, I won't get Unity or Unity 2D, though the desktop
seems to be working properly.

So I installed Xfce4-panel and it works well and its session menu tells
me I'm not running a session manager. So I thought something might have
been automatically removed when I removed the proprietary drivers, and
attempted to install ubuntu-desktop, but it was already the newest
version.

** Affects: jockey (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/856848

Title:
  After installing and removing proprietary drivers for Radeon cards,
  desktop environments do not load.

Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I've done this twice today.

  I have a clean install of Oneiric with all updates as of today. I have
  a Radeon HD5850 card and the open drivers works perfectly out of the
  box, but I was recommended to install the proprietary ones all the
  same. So I gave it a go, and found that they were not anywhere near as
  good as the open ones, but caused lots of issues and were slower. So I
  removed them, and now when I log in, I won't get Unity or Unity 2D,
  though the desktop seems to be working properly.

  So I installed Xfce4-panel and it works well and its session menu
  tells me I'm not running a session manager. So I thought something
  might have been automatically removed when I removed the proprietary
  drivers, and attempted to install ubuntu-desktop, but it was already
  the newest version.

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