Comment 7 for bug 1470862

In reply to comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer-updates/+bug/1470862/comments/5

>I recommend you to get rid of fglrx. Open source drivers for AMD work today like a charm.

I beg to differ: much as I would really like to get rid of any non-free components, without the fglrx driver *I can't even set the display brightness* let alone do more refined tweaks, furthermore it is needed for a composite window manager (such as Compiz) to work.

I'm not saying that open source video drivers don't work, I just can't do all the things I want with them -besides, I know for a fact that virtual consoles didn't disappear in previous Ubuntu releases when using the fglrx driver, so it's clearly a regression that should be fixed ASAP.

I can't tell if the problem is the latest fglrx driver itself or some grub setting or whatever, anyways I've tried some suggested workaround such as turning off the graphical terminal or changing the screen resolution in /etc/default/grub and unfortunately it didn't work.