燃灯佛所

there used to be envy for ubuntu that automatically installs and configures 3d acceleration for ATI Video Card such as my ATI Raedon Mobility X300. With the help of envy i can appreciate beautiful compiz-fusion effects on my laptop Thinkpad T43. While unfortunately ubuntu release 8.04 LTS conflicted with Envy which means i had to configure the fglrx driver myself.

Sometimes it worked while other times it didn't. I mean, each time kernel got upgraded, for example, from 2.4.17 to 2.4.18, the fglrx had to be reconfigured once again. Not only is it annoying but also very confusing : i did the same configuration all the time, but it worked fine in 2.4.17 but not in 2.4.18. I've no idea what the problem is, and had to turn back into metacity. That makes me feel depressed.

Luckily today i find the upgrade version of Envy, the Envyng. Thanks god, it works fine in Ubuntu 8.04. And now i'm in compiz environment:)

a short HOWTO is shown here:

$sudo apt-get install envyng envyng-gtk

then just run envyng-gtk (graphic mode) or envyng (text mode), follow the instructions, and restart(REMEMBER! DO NOT ACTIVIATE THE SYSTEM--ADMINISTRATION--HARDWARE DRIVERS -- ATI ACCELERATED GRAPHICS DRIVER option! I tried several times with activiating it, getting black screen... Then i tried not to touch it and rebooted my ubuntu directly, realising that Envyng does it autumatically, and that's the only correct way to install fglrx driver on ati graphic cards).
good luck !