Installing ATI drivers in Ubuntu?


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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?

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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.

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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.

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Did you try the restricted driver manager?

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

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

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