Yes, I also have a Dell XPS 1640, if that still doesn't work for you, I don't understand why it is solved for me. Have you tried an apt-get upgrade ? Very strange... Before this was solved this was my temporary solution : https://launchpad.net/~makson96/+archive/fglrx I hope it will help you, but this problem stays with the opensource driver (eventhough I don't know why it's now working for me).
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