Install Ati Driver In Linux
When it comes to VGA cards. Nvidia and ATI are the dominating manufactures of GPUs (graphical processing unit). Unlike with a CPU where you don't have to install any 'driver' since the operating system (GNU/Linux, MS Windows, etc) Kernel contains optimized drivers by default. A GPU can be a bit tricky.Although Intel has a long range of their own GPUs which are also quite powerful but still when comparing with the ATI and Nvidia, they're slightly behind. Enough 'complaining', lets get busy.Now recently AMD/ATI released a new update to their Catalyst Linux 'version' which makes it now the 11.6. If you use Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, you can install the Catalyst 11.6 quite easily the below steps.Trying to be 'friendly';-).1. First we have to download the driver it self.
So open your Terminal and enter the below command.cd /; mkdir catalyst11.6; cd catalyst11.6/wget chmod +x ati-driver-installer-11-6-x86.x8664.run2. Now lets create an executable.deb package by entering the below command in your Ubuntu Linux Terminal.sudo sh./ati-driver-installer-11-6-x86.x8664.run -buildpkg Ubuntu/natty3. Finally issue the below command which should install it in Natty (hopefully:P).sudo dpkg -i fglrx.debNow we have successfully installed the AMD/ATI Catalyst GPU driver in Ubuntu 11.04! See, how easy it is learning to use Linux, fast!:D.Update: although this may not be necessary for all the users but after the installation you may also want to run the below command to update the X.org file (the one that's behind the most basic GUI windows system known as X-Windows in GNU/Linux). As said, most wouldn't need it.sudo aticonfig -initial -f. Said.I've tried with several distros and Ubuntu versions, always with about the same results.
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Artifacts with the OS driver and a huge memory leak with the ATI driver. I hoped this would have changed with 11.04, but it actually got worse. So I finally decided to try the latest driver from the ATI site, to see if the mem leak was fixed. Using the method you describe it installed but I couldn't initialize it with aticonfig -initial (you forgot that step). So I decided to do the standard sudo sh./ati.run. It installed with no issues, and the mem leak seems to be gone.
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Hooray!:) So simple. Make sure to read the release notes on the driver site. I believe the listed dependencies are provided by qtlibgui4 or build-essential.
Said.@Orodben,Ahhh that's alright dude:). Sorry to hear that the issue is still there. And yes the Compiz version that comes with the Unity desktop is not that stable actually and there could be more reasons for that.One main thing is that it's said that Canonical did some major coding changes to the official Compiz version so it'd run Unity quite smoothly I think we just gotta give them some time (like till the next release).anyhow I'd also prefer intel Graphics too but then the performance. Good luck dude and thanks for dropping by to say that:D. Said.@galeed2010,Well it seems like you're missing few dependencies. We can either install the dependencies by using the below command and then continuesudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc6 dkms libqtgui4 wget execstack libelfg0 dh-modaliasesOR you can just forget about building a '.deb' package and use the below command (forget about the above one) instead which should do the trick for most.sudo -s./ati-driver-installer-11-6-x86.x8664.run.