System notifies about proprietary drivers to install, but they are not needed

Bug #1079412 reported by Jeff Aigner
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1017091: Blacklist fglrx/Catalyst in Jockey. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

After first install, you get the icon for proprietary drivers in the upper left. However, installing these (at least with ATI) results in very bad performance and lots of weird issues, as well as it breaks the system settings for displays (you have to use the ATI catalyst controller).

The drivers installed by default, though, seem to work wonderfully for my ATI card.

I know it's not really a bug, but maybe hiding that proprietary driver dialog away somewhere or at least notifying the user that they should be OK with the default drivers would be nice.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: elementary-desktop 1.284-0~355~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-33.52-generic 3.2.31
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
Date: Thu Nov 15 15:40:47 2012
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Beta 1 amd64 (20121114)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Jeff Aigner (enumeration) wrote :
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Cody Garver (codygarver) wrote :

AMD/ATI proprietary graphics drivers that properly support pantheon/gnome-shell are still in development.

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