Comment 16 for bug 115188

I second what Pavel Rojtberg says; Gutsy is meant to be the development branch of Ubuntu so why not use the latest fglrx (as of this moment) 8.37.6 ?

If you follow the Assigned To link above to the Debian bug database [1] you find that ATI (I _think_ it's ATI, there seems to be zero branding however) has this reported [2] and fixed in 8.37.6

Here is a description of how to install it (which is easy enough but not _that_ easy)

From this page [3] download the latest binaries [4], yes! binaries... oooh evil.
Copy to /usr/share/ati
You need a couple of debian packages

sudo apt-get install debhelper
sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev

Then...

sudo sh ati-driver-installer-8.37.6-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/gutsy

Now you should have...

sahos@sahos-laptop:/usr/share/ati$ ls -l *.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3318892 2007-06-06 23:41 fglrx-amdcccle_8.37.6-1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 912460 2007-06-06 23:41 fglrx-kernel-source_8.37.6-1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5780050 2007-06-06 23:41 xorg-driver-fglrx_8.37.6-1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40366 2007-06-06 23:41 xorg-driver-fglrx-dev_8.37.6-1_i386.deb

So...

sudo dpkg -i xorg-driver-fglrx_8.37.6-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i fglrx-kernel-source_8.37.6-1_i386.deb

Now install module assistant to help you build the kernel module; install the kernel headers if you don't have them by now (you mean to say you don't have them by now?!)

sudo apt-get install module-assistant
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

Delete the useless fglrx stuff that linux-restricted-modules installs - if there's a better more non-lethal way please let me know...

sudo rm -rf /lib/linux-restricted-modules/2.6.22-6-generic/fglrx

Now close all package managers and go to /usr/src then

sudo module-assistant

Choose PREPARE, choose SELECT, choose fglrx-kernel and then GET, BUILD and INSTALL - keep hitting esc until you get to the command line again and then

sudo depmod -a

Reboot and enjoy

ps: If I skipped any steps please fill them in - thanks!

1: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=420174
2: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609
3: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html
4: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.37.6-x86.x86_64.run