Desktop is broken or changed after update

[Samy]

Hi,

i recently installed Mint 12 on my new dell vostro 3550 laptop. Everything worked out smoothly and I was able to boot into the new system.

I ran all updates and activated the amd FGLRX driver, then i restarted the system. After login everything was kinda broken, the top-bar went black, the screen startetd flickering every now and then, and the menu button now was at the topbar and no longer at the bottom bar.

I'm not sure if its the driver that is causing this or the updates I made. Also during the update process I was asked if I want to replace some gnome default config file and I just said yes.

do you think it's the driver or the update/replaced config file?

I'm now reinstalling mint and hope it works this time.

btw. if it actually is the fglrx driver that is causing this I don't think mint should recommend people to install it or say it was "tested".

[Samy]

Ok the driver was responsible.

So if you use a laptop with an AMD Radeon HD 6630M card. Don't install the driver!