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• Hi, I just finished building a computer from spare parts and I'm now running the latest version of Ubuntu on it. I am really new with Ubuntu, so I have no idea how anything works yet. However, I am super disappointed with the video playback performance. I have an ATI Radeon 1800x that's supposed to be pretty good, but the screen is tearing unbelievably awful. I've tried downloading a driver from ATI's site, but it's a .run file and I don't know what to do with it. I also tried using the "Additional Drivers" thing located in system settings, but it doesn't that there are no proprietary drivers in use in this system. I've also tried following this guide (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI), but when I type fglrxinfo into the terminal it says command not found. I've also tried running sudo sh ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg ubuntu/maverick, but it give me an error. How do I fix this? I really don't want to spend any money on a new card. I just want this computer to act as a media server. Thank you!

• Answer:

  Unfortunately, AMD's Linux drivers are even worse than their Windows drivers. The open-source drivers are generally a little better and should have been loaded automatically. Here's how to install AMD's drivers: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI You don't need a video card to for a server. You can make a "headless" server, without a monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. Control it using SSH or VNC.