Applications in GNOME 3 are all "black".

Hello everybody,
When I open an application in GNOME 3 like Firefox, Nautilus or LibreOffice, the respective application opens but its window is completely black, I can't use it at all.
Do you know what could be causing that?
Thanks in advance!

I think you are going to need to provide more information.
1. such as graphics card.
2 which driver you are using?
3. some other background info too if possible. such as;
- was gnome 3 working and all of a sudden now it's stopped working?
- did this happen possibly after a system upgrade?? (i mention this question specifically because yesterday when i updated some xorg stuff, i was getting some nasty artifacts in compiz but then today, when xserver/xorg was fully-upgraded the problems went away.
- logging info might be helpful (but since i don't use gnome-shell, i don't know much about where you need to look. someone else probably will though)
anyway, more info is required for people to be able to help you.
EDIT: does this happen in forced-fallback mode too?
Last edited by triplesquarednine (2011-07-10 04:27:11)

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