Installing fglrx/Catalyst severely breaks Mutter-based WMs, including Gala, and installing it is hard to revert. Nevertheless, Jockey suggests installing it. We should blacklist fglrx in Jockey so users don't end up with a broken system.
Currently all bugs in elementary OS caused by fglrx/Catalyst are marked as duplicates of this one because there's nothing we can do about them - only AMD can fix bugs in their proprietary driver.
AMD does not have a public bugtracker for their driver. However, you can report your issues to:
* the Unofficial AMD Linux bugzilla: http://ati.cchtml.com/
* fglrx and fglrx-updates packages in Ubuntu, but only in case you're using these Ubuntu-provided driver packages (downloads from AMD website don't count):
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer-updates
* AMD themselves, but since they don't have a public bugtracker, we don't know how exactly to contact them.
Open-source drives are officially supported by AMD (unlike the Nvidia situation) and video acceleration doesn't really work in Catalyst (see http:// www.phoronix. com/scan. php?page= article& item=amd_ xvba_xbmc& num=1 and http:// www.phoronix. com/scan. php?page= news_item& px=MTEyNDk) so we can kill it with fire and without regrets.