Comment 4 for bug 262819

I tried to install the driver right off the ATI website, but ran into two issues so far.

If you run the actual ati*.run file, you'll get:

rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop$ sudo ./ati*.run
Created directory fglrx-install.O16780
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.532...............................
==================================================
 ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================

Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.27-7-generic; make sure that the version is being
correctly set by --iscurrentdistro

--iscurrentdistro doesn't affect the setup in any fashion, so I did
./ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run --extract
and played around with the scripts but still no go.

I don't get why people say the xorg version isn't supported... when you extract the file from ATI you clearly see this in the packages:
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages$ ls
ATI Debian Fedora Mandriva RedFlag RedHat Slackware SuSE Ubuntu
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages$ cd Ubuntu
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu$ ls
ati-packager.sh ChangeLog dists
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu$ cd dists
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu/dists$ ls
7.10 8.04 8.10 gutsy hardy intrepid source
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu/dists$ cd intrepid
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu/dists/intrepid$ ls
10fglrx.in compat fglrx-kernel-source.install.in overrides xorg-driver-fglrx.default xorg-driver-fglrx.links
acpi control fglrx-kernel-source.postinst README.Debian xorg-driver-fglrx-dev.install.in xorg-driver-fglrx.manpages
amdcccle.desktop copyright fglrx-kernel-source.prerm replacements xorg-driver-fglrx-dev.links xorg-driver-fglrx.postinst
amdcccle.kdelnk dkms.conf.in fglrx-modaliases.install rules xorg-driver-fglrx.dirs xorg-driver-fglrx.postrm
changelog.in fglrx-amdcccle.install.in modaliases xorg-driver-fglrx.atieventsd.init xorg-driver-fglrx.install.in xorg-driver-fglrx.preinst
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu/dists/intrepid$ cd ..
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu/dists$ cd 8.10
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu/dists/8.10$ ls
10fglrx.in compat fglrx-kernel-source.install.in overrides xorg-driver-fglrx.default xorg-driver-fglrx.links
acpi control fglrx-kernel-source.postinst README.Debian xorg-driver-fglrx-dev.install.in xorg-driver-fglrx.manpages
amdcccle.desktop copyright fglrx-kernel-source.prerm replacements xorg-driver-fglrx-dev.links xorg-driver-fglrx.postinst
amdcccle.kdelnk dkms.conf.in fglrx-modaliases.install rules xorg-driver-fglrx.dirs xorg-driver-fglrx.postrm
changelog.in fglrx-amdcccle.install.in modaliases xorg-driver-fglrx.atieventsd.init xorg-driver-fglrx.install.in xorg-driver-fglrx.preinst
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu/dists/8.10$

By the looks of it the ATI driver has the support, but for some reason the uname -r doesn't meet the version responses the ATI driver is looking for... or am I missing something bigger here?