compiz ought to be blacklisted on your card (ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] [1002:5975]).
For the missing panels, this can be the bug where gnome picks the screen size from a not-existing screen. Can you attach the output from xrandr --verbose please? -- Login fails, X crashes[Gutsy daily-live 20070925, AMD64] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144760 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs