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Works fine with opensource drivers, but with catalyst flickers everytime you press on activities or the lower right bar.

I have 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series

Running fresh ubuntu 11.10 and catalyst 11.10 from ati.com website.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: I want to use the proprietary drivers I know that opensource ones work fine.

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  • Possible duplicate of http://askubuntu.com/questions/62808/ati-incompatible-with-gnome-shell – Knowledge Cube Nov 06 '11 at 17:41
  • Not a duplicate the person there has problem with fonts and the panel, mine is flickering ;) – Marcus Maxwell Nov 06 '11 at 18:50
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    possible duplicate of [ATI graphics card, with gnome shell, screen flickers](http://askubuntu.com/questions/78364/ati-graphics-card-with-gnome-shell-screen-flickers) – Uri Herrera Jan 17 '12 at 22:35
  • Duplicate question - [ATI graphics card, with gnome shell, screen flickers][1] (partially solved) [1]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/78364/ati-graphics-card-with-gnome-shell-screen-flickers – JoZ3 Feb 05 '12 at 06:07
  • Working perfect with AMD Driver 12.1. :) – Harshveer Singh Feb 05 '12 at 05:09

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This steps worked for me and what you probabably should do is upgrade you ATI drivers. They have solved a lot of those issues you're facing on.

http://www.upubuntu.com/2011/12/how-to-install-amd-catalyst-1112-linux.html

For smooth installation, it is recommended to uninstall currently availabe Catalyst driver. To do this, use these commands from the terminal:

sudo apt-get remove fglrx*

To install the AMD Catalyst 11.12 Linux driver now on Ubuntu 11.10 (32-bit & 64-bit) or any older version, run this sequence of commands:

cd ~/;
mkdir catalyst11.12; 
cd catalyst11.12/

wget -O ati-driver-installer-11-12.run http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-11-12-x86.x86_64.run

If you have a 64 bit system, then install this before anything

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

After that you can start installing the new ati driver:

chmod +x ati-driver-installer-11-12.run 

sh ./ati-driver-installer-11-12.run

Make now an update for the X.org file with this command:

sudo aticonfig --initial -f

sudo reboot

Hope this helps.

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Uninstall proprietary drivers.

I did it last week and latest version of open source drivers works perfectly.

sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 xserver-xorg-core
sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
sudo rm -rf /etc/ati
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  • I know that opensource one works, I need proprietary ones. – Marcus Maxwell Nov 06 '11 at 18:48
  • If the open source driver works, but the proprietary one does not, I highly suggest you file a bug report with ATI. Support for closed source drivers is fairly minimal and does not typically extend beyond installation and configuration. – Panther Apr 02 '12 at 17:35
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try to remove Screenlets if you have ones, it helped for me (Ubuntu 11.10, AMD Proprietary Drivers 11.10).

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To solve this (with propietary drivers) install compiz manager, then go to OpenGL and make sure all the options are unchecked. Restart and you are good to go (:

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