I am having horrible problems with the latest ATI Graphics Driver. I have an ATI Radeon HD 5800 and I just lost my GUI for Linux (typing this in windows at the moment).
I've read about gallium3d being great drivers, but I can't find anything any where how to install these drivers or where to get them.
Can anyone help?
Best Answer
You can find articles and benchmarks of linux display drivers on Phoronix.
If you really want to use
gallium3d
drivers, open a terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+T and follow these instructions (taken from here):Add ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
(Click here for instructions on using PPAs.) to your system:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt-get update
Install the driver:
sudo apt-get install libg3dvl-mesa
Restart.
You can revert to the default drivers by removing the PPA as follows:
Install ppa-purge:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
Purge the PPA:
sudo ppa-purge ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers