Comment 2 for bug 1015297

Strangely, I had not enabled the fglrx proprietary driver when this happened (even though for some reason the reported system information says it was installed). I ran jockey after the fact, finding both fglrx and fglrx-updates grayed out and not activated, and I installed the non-updated version (when I try to install the fglrx-updates I get error messages) and continued to have the same problem. Either the fglrx driver was installed when I installed Ubuntu and wasn't reported as installed, or I'm experiencing this bug with both the free and proprietary driver. Only now that I've installed fgrlx, the dark layer over the screen is more like 95% dark, almost completely invisible, rather than 40% or so, even though the mouse cursor is still 100% white.