How to install the AtiX1400 graphics card driver of the dell6400 notebook in Ubuntu

Finally, the graphics card driver of the Ubuntu system has been installed. Initially, the feisty version cannot be installed on the dell6400 machine, and a black screen will appear during installation. I will not elaborate on how to install it on the forum. Later, in order to play the "openArena" game, a game with the same quake3 in linux needs to support OpenGL. So I went to ati to download the latest 8.40 driver. Run the shxxx. run Command according to instruction. After installation, the atica in windows finally installed the graphics card driver of the Ubuntu system. Initially, feisty cannot be installed on the dell 6400 host. A black screen is displayed during installation. I will not elaborate on how to install it on the forum. Later, in order to play the "openArena" game, a game with the same quake3 in linux needs to support OpenGL. So I went to ati to download the latest 8.40 driver. Run sh xxx. run according to instruction. After the installation, the ati catalyst control center in windows also appeared, although very simple. However, the OpenGL driver is still mesa.

After searching online for a long time, I finally found a solution:
Installing Ati "fglrx" drives:

1. Open the "synaptic" (System> Administration> Synaptic)
2. Search for fglrx
3. Mark xorg-driver-fglrx and fglrx-control
4. Apply changes (it will download and install the drive)
5. Open a terminal window
6. sudo cp/etc/X11/xorg. conf/etc/X11/xorg. conf_backup (Creating a backup)
7. sudo gedit/etc/X11/xorg. conf
8. Find "device" change driver = "vesa" or "ATI" to driver = "fglrx"
9. Save
10. ctrl + alt + backspace (restart X)

To put it simply, I installed the fglrx driver of the earlier version of ubuntu. I checked reinstall in synaptic. In addition, I uninstalled compiz related items, including desktop effects. If you do not uninstall it, it seems that the openGL driver will still be recognized as mesa, and I don't know how to change it. You can play games! OpenArena is really good, just like quake3 in the past. In the mutiplayer mode, you can enter a server to compete with others.

The X1400 video card is still quite powerful, and the latest bioshock game can be used to make the game work at a low resolution.