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Hi, I had never heard of these drivers before, and did some googling. According to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI, By default Ubuntu will use the *open source* AMD or Radeon driver <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver> for cards manufactured by AMD. Some users however prefer the proprietary fglrx driver for various reasons. Does this mean that you had previously disabled AMD or Radeon and then installed fglrx? How does one tell if one has radeon or fglrx? How does one go about switching? What, i...

...bugzilla page anymore to see if there is a fix. Getting anywhere with this might be a no go, the only reason I'm mentioning fglrx is I'm wondering if it's meant to give me better performance beacause.... Using the open source ati drivers from the guide https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri Code: :~$ apt-cache showpkg libgl1-mesa-glx Package: libgl1-mesa-glx Versions: 7.0.3-1ubuntu3~ppa1 Code: :~$ apt-cache showpkg libgl1-mesa-dri Package: libgl1-mesa-dri Versions: 7.0.3-1ubuntu3~ppa1 enabling dri - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/RadeonXpress Th...

...ion of Wine, for example, seemed to cause Daz Studio not to see any of the necessary DLLs, even though they were installed, though I'm not entirely sure that was the cause of that problem.) I configured the new open-source ATI drivers using these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver According to the tests described on that page, I should now have 3D graphics acceleration. I am able to run Blender, add a few objects to a scene, move them around, and render. (That's about the limit of my Blender ability under any OS.) This seems like a reasonable practical test of 3D graphi...