I finally managed to get my video card (Radeon x1950pro) driver working in Ubuntu gutsy! Me and drivers never seem to get along… but this was the worst case ever! I tried everything. Using both 32 and 64 bit versions of ubuntu, I tried ubuntu’s automatic restricted driver installation (which pops up on the top panel), I tried manually installing the drivers from the ati website, followed a couple different guides and no luck!! >_< I would always reboot after installation into a very very evil black screen…

But then I found a handy little program called Ubuntu envy, which automatically installs the appropriate drivers for your video card, either ati or nvidia. I was sure that it would stand bugger all chance at working, but after reboting, I have the correct resolution, desktop effects are crankin and ubuntu is reporting the restricted driver is finally in use! HOOOORAAAYYY. Now I can ubuntu too!!

And all I had to do was follow the installation faq:

sudo dpkg -i envy*.deb #<--- install the dependencies that it reports missing and re execute this
sudo apt-get install -f
then open her up in applications > system tools > envy , and basically tell it to do it for me automatically! It doesnt get any better than that!

Do you Ubuntu?