Comments on: How to install ATI Video Card in you linux System

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:08:12 +0000

oh no!!! After the reboot I get the splash screen and think all is fine, then the whole screen goes black with a few blk and white horizontal bars (red vertical lines through thosee bars). What happened? I’m using my laptop right now

By: LUC@X

LUC@X — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:37:32 +0000

Ready, i installed my Ati Radeon X1550 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy -- Compiz Fusion working 100% ;-D -- just follow this simply steps !!!

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Hardy_Installation_Guide

it is a complete step by step perfect guide to install the driver succesfully on any distro just changing some little things (if privative software windos* has not completely sucked up your brain)…

Enjoy Compiz… Enjoy Linux… is open for all, completely Legal and Free to use

LUC@X (--Mérida-- Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)

By: LUC@X

LUC@X — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:27:40 +0000

Hey Mark, just get into the directory where the ati_driver is, use cd //home/…/Desktop for example if it? on your desktop… the use sudo sh ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:38:03 +0000

I tried it with sudo.
It asks me for a password. After I enter the password I get the following:

sudo: ./ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run: command not found

What am I doing wrong??
Thanx

By: admin

admin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:53:31 +0000

try to run as sudo

sudo ./ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run –extract fglrx

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:37:59 +0000

Hi, i have a problem, when i type:

$ ./ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run --extract fglrx

i get:

-bash: ./ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run: Permission denied

Can anyone help me?

Thanx!

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:17:20 +0000

I would like to advise the fellow readers to take EXTREME CAUTION when using envy. I have used it on my laptop 3 times , each after a fresh install. The first time I got decent results. The second time worked out well. The third time completely borked my sem and left me with no gui and no way to restore the gui. So I say again, use Envy with caution. Back uo the important stuff first. Envy usually installs without a hitch but you just never know.

By: AdamB

AdamB — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:00:07 +0000

@DoruHush: You would have to have an 800 by 600 pixel screen to not be able to see that command. I think today’s acceptable standards are assuming 1024 by 768.
Perhaps, as a work around, you could copy+paste the test into your own word processor to get some text wrap.

By: DoruHush

DoruHush — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:45:40 +0000

Thank you for your quick response. I already knew those things and Envy works.
I was talking about the fact that the command lines posted in this article can not be viewed on a normal display monitor (4:3 format). I have no idea what the author want
to say, I can’t read the entire command line because it is too long.
I don’t use this site just for me, I recommend the articles to many peoples and they seems to have the same problem.
I have no problem with the driver installation, I just want to see an other method if there is one and recommend it if possible.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:02:25 +0000

Envy is great. I would also suggest taking a look here

By: admin

admin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:42:14 +0000

i would suggest envy tool to install ATI and Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu check here some good article check this

By: DoruHush

DoruHush — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:59:32 +0000

And the tip you are talking do not refer to Ubuntu. It is for Debian,
they are brothers but they are not the same.
Do something, please.

By: DoruHush

DoruHush — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:37:54 +0000

Please do something to show the entire command line content, because it is very important.
These is what I can see on an 4:3 format monitor:
“$ wget -c https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/dri”
“$ sudo apt-get install module-assistant buil”
“$ sudo dpkg -i fglrx-driver_8.42.3-1_amd64.deb fglrx-driver-dev_8.42.3-1_amd64.deb fglrx-”

I like to read first what is all about before I can apply those commands.

By: rdoursenaud

rdoursenaud — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:09:36 +0000

Yes, this command will install the packages listed :
module-assistant : A tool to help you build your own modules the debian/ubuntu way
build-essential : A metapackage linked to all the essential tools you need to build from source
dh-make and debconf : scripts to make packaging easier

By: Gunadi

Gunadi — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:12:00 +0000

dear sir
what is the meaning of below command?
$ sudo apt-get install module-assistant build-essential fakeroot dh-make debconf
Do we will iintal 4 package i.e : module, assistant build,essential fakeroot dh and make debconf? or what?
I am sorry i try to learn the command line and since my internet connection is very bad I prefer to use DVD repo for install packege, unfortunately latest ATI card is not available,
fortunately one my friends has it. our ATI card is ATI radeon X550. could you help us.
salam (greeting in Indonesia)
Gunadi