Proprietary AMD driver freezes my Ideapad

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Published on 2012-06-14T08:03:09Z Indexed on 2012/06/30 15:25 UTC
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I got this problem that I can't figure out what to do about. On Ideapad s205 with Ubuntu 12.04* (64), if I install Catalyst Centre 12.1 or newer it Freeze (lock's up), 1-3 times a day. It doesn't suffer freezing when using Radeon driver, but Radeon driver are considerably slower and flickers, so I would really prefer the proprietary driver (with no freezing).

I reported the bug to launchpad but it doesn't get attention. -Also tried Ubuntu forums.

Reported bug to AMD bug site "http://ati.cchtml.com/", but I don't think anybody reads it. Wrote AMD support several times, but get silly answers like "reinstall Windows". -Asked them to send the bug to Linux driver developers, but never heard a thing (more than once). The same nothing happens when writing to the feedback link from AMD driver download site.

I'm so frustrated here, any advice would help.

Thanks

(*The same on Ubuntu 11.10)

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