Installing ATI drivers in Ubuntu?

[Elliot B.]

Ubuntu won't allow me to enable the desktop effects. This system has an ATI Radeon 9550 Pro card in it, so I went to the ATI website and downloaded ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run.

Double-clicking the downloaded file brings up 'gedit' which tells me it could not open the file as it could not detect the character coding or something like that.

What do I do now?

[Foub]

  King Mustard said:

Ubuntu won't allow me to enable the desktop effects. This system has an ATI Radeon 9550 Pro card in it, so I went to the ATI website and downloaded ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run.

Double-clicking the downloaded file brings up 'gedit' which tells me it could not open the file as it could not detect the character coding or something like that.

What do I do now?

Have you gone to Synaptic Package Manager in the System/Administration menu and installed x-server-xgl and Gnome-Compiz-Manager? Just type in xgl in the search box if you hadn't.

[Elliot B.]

  Foub said:

Have you gone to Synaptic Package Manager in the System/Administration menu and installed x-server-xgl and Gnome-Compiz-Manager? Just type in xgl in the search box if you hadn't.

I installed those two and now I see GL Desktop. I click on that and click 'Enable GL Desktop' which enables some extra tabs but nothing happens when I drag windows, minimize etc.

[Shaun N.]

Try Envy, very simply for both Ati and Nvidia

http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

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Did you try the restricted driver manager?

[Elliot B.]

  shaun2312 said:

Try Envy, very simply for both Ati and Nvidia

http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

Will do (Y)

  alex. said:

Did you try the restricted driver manager?

Yeah, no luck.

[Shaun N.]

Hey King, How did you get on?

[Jock Horror]

follow this guide thoroughly and it will install for sure...

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Gu...tallation_Guide

[Peter Lyon]

cd to the directory with the drivers in and type "sudo sh /ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run" then put in your password and away you go

[markwolfe Veteran]

You mean sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run

Otherwise, you would be looking in the root of the filesystem

[Peter Lyon]

lol yes, i thought i put that...