Comment 26 for bug 1017091

So, some updates: Last night (UTC+1 time) the beta driver stopped worked for me. I thought it was related to virtualbox or some updates/installations I did. So I did a clean install this morning, avoiding updates and installed the beta driver: same thing. Torchlight gave me a teal screen with no video (buttons and controls and everything were still there). Morrowind (Steam + wine) wouldn´t give me any video and gave me a white screen.

So, ready to do another clean install and think of alternatives (since the radeon drivers don´t work for me for some reason), I thought I´d try the actual fglrx driver. I reboot. See the elementary logo. And it sits on the black screen for a while. Next thing I know, Pantheon-login pops up. I log in. Check jockey, I´m using the fglrx driver, not the beta.

I don´t yet have torchlight reinstalled, but I got Steam up and running on wine, and launched Morrowind. Super super super shakey video, but I was able to exit out.

Random thought: why not try awesome wm. Installed it. Poped in my configs. Bam. Morrowind runs without a hitch. So, obviously we still have some issues with mutter based wm and fglrx, but it´s nice to know that we´re getting somewhere.

My setup:
AMD Phenom II 945 (not overclocked)
Saphire Radeon HD 6570 4GB DDR2

Stuff is happening. And this is exciting.