Installing the Proprietary fglrx Driver

OK, I cannot use the open source driver.

Tying to use the proprietary fglrx driver.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

How do I determine that my card is a Radeon card?

System=>Preferences=>Hardware Information

This show that my card to be the following

• On the RS480 PCI Bridge
• An RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP]

Also the following will show that information from the command line.

$ lspci | grep VGA

However, the 'Hardware Information' gives a lot more information.

I am going to try to install from the Ubuntu repository first.

Making sure that the generic Linux restricted modules and the restricted KDE manager are installed.

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-restricted-modules-generic restricted-manager-kde

This demands that I have the CD.

Trying to mount the ISO like I did last time but the mount is not working.

Trying to simply point the /cdrom/ to the wrong location.

That worked. Everything is now installed.

Is the xconfig file back?

No it is still gone.

I cannot open the restricted driver.

Do I need to reboot?

I also seem to have lost the ability to reboot.

Must be because I started X from the command line in my user.

Have rebooted successfully