No. Everything works fine with the drivers shipped with Ubuntu by default. The only issue is my laptop runs very hot and the battery only lasts about 1 hour. In 12.04 this was solved by installing the additional drivers supplied within Ubuntu.
I did this: 1. Installed fglrx through "Additional Drivers" 2. Rebooted. Unity is missing. 3. Entered terminal through Ctrl+Alt+T and typed "DISPLAY=:0 compiz --replace" 4. Removed my battery and rebooted as I saw no other option to reboot since I no longer could enter into term 5. Am now in low-graphics mode -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1076872 Title: [HP Probook 4530s] Unity does not load with fglrx-installer in 12.10 AMD Radeon™ HD 6490M To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1076872/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
