Newest version of the ATI Catalyst 8.6 Driver for Ubuntu

Today I decided to switch to the newest version of the ATI driver flgrx (version 8.6) instead of the restricted driver that comes with the ubuntu 8.04 distribution. I followed the excellent description on http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Hardy_Installation_Guide.

Everything worked fine. I could enable "Extra Visual Effects" without having problems with the video drivers e.g. in Miro (after I changed from xine to gstreamer).

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