Fglrx freezing laptop when power not plugged in

[LordRM]

I've got a Dell Inspiron 1545 with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4300 series card. I need proper OpenGL support, so it appears I need the fglrx driver. After I install it, I experience very odd freezes related to the power cable:

- It freezes if I rapidly take the plug in and out a few times
- It freezes if I run on battery power for a random amount of time between 10 and 20 minutes. This happens if I boot up on battery power, or if I take out the plug while it's on (assuming the first kind of freeze doesn't happen)

Any suggestions/ideas?

EDIT: Ok, I have changed absolutely nothing about the drivers, but now those specific freezes don't happen. Instead, I just got a random freeze, while the power cable was in and not being touched.

I know this is a binary blob, can't be fixed, etc., but can I at least get confirmation that anyone else is having these issues?

[drworm01]

I can confirm the freeze/crash on boot when running on battery. The initial purple screen comes up, but then nothing and the computer either stays frozen or reboots itself.

There are also random freezes on boot when the cord is plugged in. The system will start up, my desktop appears, initial dialogs pop up, but nothing can be interacted with. Pointer moves, but nothing can be clicked and no keyboard input is accepted.

I only have the problem when the computer is booting, not when it's actually been running. I'm using an MSI laptop with the same graphics chip.