Pubudu Kodikara, thank you for providing the requested information. Please be advised that while placing a bug report at ati.cchtml.com is one more way to increase your chances of this being fixed as soon as possible, it's not maximizing it. This is how as per AMD http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx , ati.cchtml.com is a community resource, and is not supported by, or affiliated with AMD in any way.
Hence, could you please contact AMD directly through official support channels and report the results via https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI#Official_AMD_support_channels ? As well, regarding your overheat with the open source driver, you are welcome to file a separate bug against linux following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Debugging/HighTemperatures . Please note WORKAROUNDs at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Debugging/HighTemperatures#Working_around_overheat . Marking Importance High as this a "problem with an essential hardware component (video card)", and open source drivers suffer from overheat. ** Changed in: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1068661 Title: Unity does not load after installing fglrx-installer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/fglrx/+bug/1068661/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
