Friday, 29 May 2009

How To make ATI Catalyst work with Compiz - Xorg Server

First you need to add a new source to your repo's

>open the "Software Sources" GUI



System/Administration/Software Sources

>Then select the tab "Third-Party Software

>Then Add... these two APT lines by clicking on the "Add..." button and cut/past them in. Add them "ONE at a Time"

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/xserver-no-backfill/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/xserver-no-backfill/ubuntu jaunty main

>Now you just need to enter it's GPG Key

>Fist follow this link

http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x643DC6BD56580CEB1AB4A9F63B22AB97AF1CDFA9&op=index

>That "Should" open a new tab, On that tab you will see

pub 1024R/AF1CDFA9 2009-01-20 Launchpad PPA for Ubuntu-X

>Click the "AF1CDFA9" or whatever that # is at the time.

>Then it should take you to a page with the GPG/PGP key and looks like this

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: SKS 1.0.10

mI0ESXVCiwEEANKBDbiSLOJOouub/S97iDifYCVW1b0KONg7XkFYiFos+bMBzzZyGGo90k1h
hCxcseLvqCKPL7dG0RzPRKMo7mvM68yyqi2ljw0ZYC9cVf0YzgKRTohVhihelpwZ+sBRGNYk
OCu+u0Dr+EdVI3u5RNOxAELrbd4vYaS+2cCOfzmLABEBAAG0GkxhdW5jaHBhZCBQUEEgZm9y
IFVidW50dS1YiLYEEwECACAFAkl1QosCGwMGCwkIBwMCBBUCCAMEFgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRA7
IquXrxzfqY4HBACIQEFhl59ZkuIhTD3pmCQgfkhpcg0RVdB6Xwhu3QDJvmlWmrs+cofNMzyA
7SwdjD9ARvhGbqHwub+T7oGiHlmFyodGypUZ4i/fdHsZYpsf34MwgYxhyNyOPY/jNImUE/yw
kSI+kV5esWURH4j0jYfkaergFqCpDnsSkxuIvdjH2Q==
=bkAa
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

>Now open up gedit or any text editor you like and Cut+Past in the whole key. Then save the file with any name, like NewRepoKey_1

>Back in the "Software Sources" GUI click on the "Authentication" Tab

>Then click on the "Import Key File..." button and navigate to the key you saved and click OK.

>Now click "close"

>Now take a brake and have a smoke.

>Now you can upgrade you system through any of the multitudes of GUI's Ubuntu preinstalls

Or just

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

1 comments:

Tyler said...

I am happy more people are able to find this workaround. However, it is a temporary workaround.

Everyone interested would be better off reading my thread on ubuntuforums.org.

This is a direct copy of my tread. I will update my tread when things change but this copy will never be updated.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1172875