Re: Questions on Installing fglrx

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Andrei Popescu
<andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Ma, 15 mar 11, 09:06:18, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>
>> $ aticonfig --initial
>> Found fglrx primary device section
>>  Unable to find any supported Screen sections
>
> Assuming you followed those steps *exactly* and there were no errors,
> remove xorg.conf and retry the 'aticonfig --initial'. BTW, that command
> needs root, because it must write a new xorg.conf.
>

Actually the solution was simply to get the driver from unstable:

sudo apt-get install -t unstable  fglrx-control fglrx-driver fglrx-glx
fglrx-modules-dkms

It did pulls lot of update xserver-* packages but glxinfo/glxgears are
 working very nicely.

Thanks,
-- 
Mathieu