Comment 62 for bug 179042

> change your preferences in your video player to output via "x11".

An earlier comment here explained how to do that in various video players:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/179042/comments/25

This is really just a work-around, not a real fix, though.

Basically, this is an AMD/ATI problem, because AMD/ATI doesn't properly support the development of full-featured open-source drivers for their video adapters--even though they once appeared to promise that they would: see http://www.linux.com/feature/119049

We're, in effect, being held hostage by AMD/ATI; only they can resolve this mess. NVIDIA isn't any better, by the way; I decided to dump them because of the annoying bugs in their binary-only drivers, and because of the apparent promise from AMD/ATI.

In fact, the only vendor that seems to properly support open-source drivers for its graphics hardware, is Intel. My only computer that doesn't need a proprietary driver for its video adapter, is a Dell Studio 17 laptop--which has an Intel graphics chip built in. Unfortunately, there aren't any separate Intel graphics adapter cards available; if and when good Intel graphics cards (with full-featured open-source Linux drivers) ever became available, I'd rush out and buy one--No wait, I'd buy at least five!