Tip: How to fix the ATI driver when upgrading Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04

I decided to upgrade my laptop to 10.04 beta 1. When the update was done (something I had to do at home because the damn Update Manager does not work with proxies, at least not when running it manually) I was left without a working Xorg configuration, apparently because the fglrx (non-free) ATI driver did not support the x-server used in Lucid. According to the release notes, the fix is the use the open source driver (ati) instead....

March 28, 2010 · 1 min · alj