ati graphical driver 8.42 fglrx for Ubuntu linux

If anything wrong, run this command to recover your graphics configuration:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
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Hello everyone, I have a little guide I cooked up, which is basically a modified version of Forlongs guide. I had some trouble getting this all to work, so I decided I would try to help others who may have had some of the problems I was encountering, like a white screen, low graphics, exct. This guide was intended for a fresh install of Gutsy on a 32 bit system, and will work, Ill post the pix to verify my properly working installation. I gotta say that Ive had great success using this driver, glxgears = 5000fps, compiz fusion = 300+fps, nice and smooth 3d & 2d, some video playback trouble, but I found temporarily disabling compiz fusion fixed that problem. So anyways, I hope this helps some of you out.




1. Remove the old driver (if present)

Go to System → Administration → Restricted Drivers Manager and choose disable.

Or remove it yourself:

sudo apt-get remove xorg-driver-fglrx




2. Blacklist old fglrx module:

sudo gedit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

And insert fglrx - it should look like this then:

DISABLED_MODULES="fglrx"





3. Reboot now.




4. Download the driver installer to your home folder

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/at...x86.x86_64.run




5. Install necessary packages (to make Debian packages out of the driver, you will need you gutsy installation disc for this.)

sudo apt-get install module-assistant build-essential fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++5 linux-headers-generic




6. Create .deb packages

bash ./ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/gutsy




7. Install .deb packages

sudo dpkg -i fglrx-kernel-source_8.42.3-1_i386.deb xorg-driver-fglrx_8.42.3-1_i386.deb



8. Compile kernel module

sudo m-a prepare,update

sudo m-a build,install fglrx-kernel

sudo depmod




9. Time for the initial configuration of fglrx.

sudo aticonfig --initial --force

sudo aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv




10. Configure the driver (If needed, which it wont be on a fresh install)

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf


Make sure "fglrx" is set for the Driver in the Section "Device".

And if present, remove:

Section "Extensions"

Option "Composite" "0" # or "Disable"

EndSection

As well as

Section "ServerFlags"

Option "AIGLX" "off"

EndSection



11. Now you need to modify your Whitelist for Compiz Fusion

sudo gedit /etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager


Once that opens up add this under the last line:

WHITELIST="nvidia intel ati radeon i810 fglrx"



12. CONGRATZ!! You should be gold now, lol, as a recomended option though I would go into Synaptic Package Manager and install:
"compizconfig-settings-manager"
which will give you all the compiz fusion options we all thirst for!!!