| thetonestarr said: That's what I meant to say I was working on doing. Anyhow, I figured out how to install my drivers. http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7193 did the trick |
What?
And nobody tried to stop you?
STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW!!!!!
I'm not joking, you're destroying your OS. What you're doing is pure nonsense and will bear only frustration. I can't believe nobody in this thread tried to stop you. Some even talk to you about apt-get and compilation, despite you saying you're a newbie (which wasn't necessary, it's obvious).
I can only guess most people that answered to you here are newbie too.
This website is not the place you should be if you need assistance. You should be on Ubuntu forums.
Besides, you don't need to do anything with RPM or other nonsense. There's only one thing you need to do, which installs everything automagically. A notification should appear after some time in the upside menu bar, telling you that you can use faster drivers. Or you can go in the menu option System -> Administration -> Device Drivers or sth like that.
Anyway, don't ever do nonsense like trying to install things by hand, especially when you don't know what you're doing. For example, the link you gave is for Ubuntu 7.10 and is therefore completely obsolete and useless.
The very fact that you cited libstdc++, fontconfig, zlib among the things you need should have raised an alarm bell on anyone that know even a little of Linux or even Unix. Really, don't try to do such things again.
Go to Ubuntu forums, some users give advice without knowing anything at all, but at least you have a better probability of finding someone knowledgeable.
AMD freed more video driver sources, so I don't know the state of ATI cards on Ubuntu, but sure enough they know better on Ubuntu forums. 8.10 may even have installed the best drivers already, and you may be trying to destroy them.
