Elliot B. Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foub Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot B. Posted March 19, 2008 Author Share Posted March 19, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun N. Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Try Envy, very simply for both Ati and Nvidia http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹ Posted March 19, 2008 Subscriber¹ Share Posted March 19, 2008 Did you try the restricted driver manager? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot B. Posted March 19, 2008 Author Share Posted March 19, 2008 Try Envy, very simply for both Ati and Nvidiahttp://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html Will do (Y) Did you try the restricted driver manager? Yeah, no luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun N. Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Hey King, How did you get on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jock Horror Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 follow this guide thoroughly and it will install for sure... http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Gu...tallation_Guide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Lyon Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 30, 2008 Veteran Share Posted March 30, 2008 You mean sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run Otherwise, you would be looking in the root of the filesystem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Lyon Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 lol yes, i thought i put that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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