Distorted Screen e350 Chipset Catalyst Drivers

Hi All,
I had a go at loading Arch on my e350 based system yesterday with the idea of having a minimal environment running XBMC, VirtualBox and an Apache server. After a successful install I attempted to install the proprietary Catalyst drivers via the AUR which appeared to go OK. However after running 'aticonfig --initial' and then running startx I was greeted by a less than visually impressive display. When moving the cursor or even typing the screen distorts almost like a tear, I thought that this might be a quirk of running a minimal xterm interface so I then tried to install XBMC.
XBMC suffered from the same distortion/tearing as xterm but additionally the screen resolution was too low to actually cover the whole screen even though XBMC was purportedly outputting at 1080p. When viewing the system info section of XBMC the CPU utilization seemed all over the place and in addition things like CPU and GPU temp just weren't available. This leads me to believe that the catalyst drivers aren't working even though the fglrx modules are loaded and XBMC was able to do sound over HDMI - which I thought was only available through the catalyst drivers? I'm really not sure what to do because there appears to be no way to debug the issue. I've tried re installing the catalyst drivers multiple times now.
The only perhaps useful bit of information was an error that was displayed when ending the x session, something about the display with device id not being found.
I'd really appreciate any help anyone can provide....
Thanks in advance.
BTW. Bravo on the captcha system on the registration page - never seen one like that before!
Last edited by dominic7il (2013-12-20 13:15:32)

Yes I've just tried enabling the tear free setting and no difference. I've also tried the OSS drivers (now vdpau is supported) which seem to give a much better result (in xterm at least). Unfortunately XBMC doesn't even load up with those drivers it just flashes black back and forth between the terminal. It's a nightmare - really appreciate any help about now.

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