Display glitches running ATI propietary driver under Ubuntu 12.10

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Published on 2012-11-25T22:10:07Z Indexed on 2012/12/05 17:27 UTC
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I have a lot of problems with the Ati propietary driver (fglrx).

I have an iMac (mid 2011) with a Radeon HD 6900M [1002:6720].

I did not have any problem under Ubuntu 12.04, but since I updated to 12.10, I get some annoying graphic corruption.

The worst one is that sometimes the screen does not update with the new information. It happens a lot when I change between tabs in Chrome or Sublime Text. It usually gets updated when I scroll the page.

Sometimes, when I type, I have to wait a little bit to view the new characters.

And I get trails when I move windows too (like a part of the window). After a while, the trail disappears.

I tried to install fglrx, fglrx-updates and the new beta driver downloaded from Ati (12.11 Beta 11/16/2012), with no luck. It happens the same with all of them.

I tried to mess with Compiz config, but it didn't fix anything.

The open source driver does not suffer this problem, but I need the performance of the propietary driver .

Do you have any clue?

Thanks.

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