I am really new to Linux, but I figure that the only way I'm going to learn it is by using it, so i recently struggled through the installation of Ubuntu. I made three partitions: the swap, root and /var. Now its all well and good the install was fine but now I cant seem to install the ATI Radion Linux drivers. Now I know almost nothing about Linux so i am assuming that .run is like .exe. But when i opened ati-driver-installer-8.16.20-i386.run it give me a error message: “Could not open the file '/home/katz/Desktop/ati-...staller-8.16.20-i386.run' gedit was not able to automatically detect the character coding. Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file and try again selecting a character coding in the 'Open File...' (or 'Open Location') dialog.” On the ATI website it gave me the impression that I needed to access the file through terminal, so i navigated terminal (painfully) to the desktop. The web site says as follows: “Enter the command ./ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run to launch the ATI Proprietary Linux driver installer.” so i typed “katz@THEMONOLITH:~/Desktop$ /ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run” and got this: “bash: /ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run: No such file or directory” i also tried “./ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run” as it describes in the text but that did not help either. This would not be such a problem if the refresh rate on my screen could not go above 60Hz, its giving me a head ache and making me nauseous. I tried looking at the BinaryDriverHowto/ATI but was very confused. Is there any way I'm going to solve this problem without getting a Linux guru to help me install some friken video drivers?

well this is what its supposed to look like http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=201&num=2 make sure you've typed the name exactly right. and yes you do need the . before the / usually file not found errors are due to typing the name wrong. the only dependency for the ati installer seems to be the x server.

and oh.... were you in superuser mode at the time? it'll error out if you're not but the specific error you're getting right now is almost certainly due to typing the name wrong somewhere or getting the location wrong. list the files in the directory to make sure its there.

Where did you download the file to? Is it in your home directory? If so you want to do the following in a terminal: $ cd ~ (this changes directory to your home) $ sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run Ubuntu does allow you to log in as root as in other distros, you need to use sudo instead (SUperuser DO) and then enter your password. Just having a quick look on the web it looks as though the ATI drivers have got up to version 8.16.20....