Comment 0 for bug 417500

i have a ati radeon hd 4850 graphic card and run ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) .First I installed the restricted driver by using the hardware drivers menu. After installation I reboot and try to check the extra radio button in the visual effects tab of the appearence preferences . I tried several times and came to the conclusion it didn't work. So I downloaded the newest ati-driver on the amd-site. But the result stays the same! Then I install EnvyNG, and uncheck the "enabled" button next to the ati driver(8.543-0ubuntu4.1) and then reboot. Then I go to the visual settings tab again (without re-enabling the driver) and i check the "extra' radio button. Ubuntu checks for available drivers and after re-enabling them, I got the " Desktop effects could not be enabled" error message again and I close the appearence preferences. And Then i got the fglrx-installer error message it said something like the driver crashed or something like that.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: EOF on stdin at conffile prompt
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: xorg-driver-fglrx 2:8.543-0ubuntu4.1
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.27-14-generic (buildd@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu11) ) #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 16:25:45 UTC 2009

SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
Title: package xorg-driver-fglrx 2:8.543-0ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: EOF on stdin at conffile prompt
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686
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