Installing the Open Source Radeon (ATI) Driver

Look like this driver will only give me 2 D support. Cannot be use with WOW for now.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx

This says that the drive is not installed.

$ glxinfo |grep vendor

This gives back: Error: unable to open display

This is not a good sign.

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri

This says that the following packages where automatically installed and are no longer requried:

• libfaad2-0
• libavutil1d
• libquicktime1
• libavcodic1d
• libx264-54
• libmms0

It recommends that I use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

It also talks about processing triggers for libc6 and that the ldconfig deferred processing is now taking place, whatever that means.

$ sudo apt-get autoremove

Says that it is removing the following packages:

• libavcodec1d
• libavutil1d
• libcdaudio1
• libfaad2-0
• libgsm1
• libmjpegtools0c2a
• libmms0
• libquicktime1
• libsoundtouich1c2
• libx264-54

Again says the ldconfig deferred processing now talking place.

Made a copy of the old xorg.conf to xorg.conf.fglrx.

In install instructions says that I should be able to simply remove the xorg.conf file and it should work.

$ sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.moved
$ sudo startx

Complains that I am running the session as a privileged user and that this should be avoided.

Quiting.

$ startx

Yea!!! My screen is back!!!!