Ubuntu
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General Status
- Included with Distribution
- Native Installer Support contributed by Aric Cyr
Installation
Tips and Tricks
- 64bit users should note that there is a problem in Breezy with the libdri.a library and fglrx. There is also a problem with the package generation scipts in the 8.18.8 ATI installer. The workaround for both of these problems can be found in the install guide. [resolved]: Both problems are fixed in 8.19.10 release. Always use the latest drivers when possible.
- To build your own .deb packages for Ubuntu you will need to install at least the following packages from the apt repositories:
- fakeroot
- debhelper
- build-essential
- make
- module-assistant
- gcc-3.4
- I found the generated packages for Breezy x86_64 broken in 8.21.7. The package xorg-driver-fglrx includes a libdri.a that is supposed to replace the original one from xserver-xorg-core. However the installation with dpkg fails, refusing to overwrite the existing libdri.a. If I run dpkg --force-overwrite the installation succeeds but the new libdri.a is saved as libdri.a.distrib. I had to manually copy it to libdri.a in order to get 3D acceleration working. Something weird going on with diversions.
- If you have linux-restricted-modules installed, you may want to disable the l-r-m packages fglrx kernel module because it will invariably get in the way of your more recent drivers. To do this edit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common and disable fglrx.
aticonfig
Since version 8.18.6 the fglrx driver includes the aticonfig tool which simplifies xorg.conf editing. Here are some useful commands this tool offers (for a complete list see aticonfig --help).
- Initial setup (creates device section using fglrx)
sudo aticonfig --initial
- Enable Video acceleration (Xv Overlay)
sudo aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
- Force fglrx to use kernel's AGP driver instead of own implementation (only use when internal agpgart doesn't work)
sudo aticonfig --internal-agp=off
