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Even if you have ubuntu, and a propietary driver for your computer was automatically installed for you, its usually a good idea to install one yourself. The reason being that the drivers automatically dowloaded by ubuntu’s “hardware drivers” feature are oftentimes close, but not the perfect match for your video card. For example, i used to have to disable mip-maps on compiz with the driver that was automatically downloaded, otherwise i would see a white cube or window everytime i used compiz. To download the ATI driver you need to know what video card you have, once you know, head to the download site:

Drivers & Software

Be sure to choose your processor architecture. After you download the file it will have this at the end.

ati-driver-installer-8-12-x86.x86_64.run

I had never heard of a “.run” file, and after some research i learned that it was a shell script. So to run this program i would execute the following command as root in the terminal

sh ‘/home/francisco/Desktop/ati-driver-installer-8-12-x86.x86_64.run’

replace the part in quotes with the link to your download location

After you execute the command you should see this window

Choose to install the driver and press Continue. Then accept the license agreement.
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Then choose automatic installation

Press Continue

Then Continue again

The driver installs, then follow the directions on the page

reboot

if after reboot the driver fails to install, run this from the terminal as root

aticonfig –initial -f

reboot