I second what Pavel Rojtberg says; Gutsy is meant to be the development branch of Ubuntu so why not use the latest fglrx (as of this moment) 8.37.6 ?
If you follow the Assigned To link above to the Debian bug database [1] you find that ATI (I _think_ it's ATI, there seems to be zero branding however) has this reported [2] and fixed in 8.37.6
Here is a description of how to install it (which is easy enough but not _that_ easy)
From this page [3] download the latest binaries [4], yes! binaries... oooh evil.
Copy to /usr/share/ati
You need a couple of debian packages
Now install module assistant to help you build the kernel module; install the kernel headers if you don't have them by now (you mean to say you don't have them by now?!)
I second what Pavel Rojtberg says; Gutsy is meant to be the development branch of Ubuntu so why not use the latest fglrx (as of this moment) 8.37.6 ?
If you follow the Assigned To link above to the Debian bug database [1] you find that ATI (I _think_ it's ATI, there seems to be zero branding however) has this reported [2] and fixed in 8.37.6
Here is a description of how to install it (which is easy enough but not _that_ easy)
From this page [3] download the latest binaries [4], yes! binaries... oooh evil.
Copy to /usr/share/ati
You need a couple of debian packages
sudo apt-get install debhelper
sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev
Then...
sudo sh ati-driver- installer- 8.37.6- x86.x86_ 64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/gutsy
Now you should have...
sahos@sahos- laptop: /usr/share/ ati$ ls -l *.deb 8.37.6- 1_i386. deb source_ 8.37.6- 1_i386. deb fglrx_8. 37.6-1_ i386.deb fglrx-dev_ 8.37.6- 1_i386. deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3318892 2007-06-06 23:41 fglrx-amdcccle_
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 912460 2007-06-06 23:41 fglrx-kernel-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5780050 2007-06-06 23:41 xorg-driver-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40366 2007-06-06 23:41 xorg-driver-
So...
sudo dpkg -i xorg-driver- fglrx_8. 37.6-1_ i386.deb source_ 8.37.6- 1_i386. deb
sudo dpkg -i fglrx-kernel-
Now install module assistant to help you build the kernel module; install the kernel headers if you don't have them by now (you mean to say you don't have them by now?!)
sudo apt-get install module-assistant generic
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-
Delete the useless fglrx stuff that linux-restricte d-modules installs - if there's a better more non-lethal way please let me know...
sudo rm -rf /lib/linux- restricted- modules/ 2.6.22- 6-generic/ fglrx
Now close all package managers and go to /usr/src then
sudo module-assistant
Choose PREPARE, choose SELECT, choose fglrx-kernel and then GET, BUILD and INSTALL - keep hitting esc until you get to the command line again and then
sudo depmod -a
Reboot and enjoy
ps: If I skipped any steps please fill them in - thanks!
1: http:// bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 420174 ati.cchtml. com/show_ bug.cgi? id=609 ati.amd. com/support/ drivers/ linux/linux- radeon. html /a248.e. akamai. net/f/674/ 9206/0/ www2.ati. com/drivers/ linux/ati- driver- installer- 8.37.6- x86.x86_ 64.run
2: http://
3: http://
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