Video Card driver

[psychaospath]

Ok ive got an ATI RADEON X1300 Pro AGP 8x 256 MB and i cant get it installed. Ive got a dual booted pc wit XP and Linux Ubuntu running on it.
Ive got the card installed on windows no problem of course, but im new to linux so im running into brick walls with it.

I went to restricted drivers manager, it prompted me for the root password, i did that, and then tried to enable the card but when i do, it does nothing. it still says its not enabled. ive tried running the driver installer but it wont let me all it says is i need to be super user to install it. Please help!!

[bigtomrodney]

Did you reboot after enabling it? If you want to run the manual one you need to use su or sudo to give you root privelages.

[psychaospath]

Yes, I rebooted, and it still says "Not in use."

[abhishek456]

did you got root previlages while installing drivers.

use sudo for obtaining root previlages

[psychaospath]

what is sudo and where do i get it

[chadders]

sudo is a command placed at the beginning of each command you want to have root privilages.

For example:

rm /home/user/a/b.txt (this command hasn't got root privilages)
sudo rm /home/user/a/b.txt (this command does have root privilages)

When you have root privilages you are essentially becomming an administrator so use the power wisely. I have made some lovely mistakes in the past thanks to super user privilages.

P.S. You type these commands in the terminal. And did I mention ATI cards are annoying on Linux lol :P.

[psychaospath]

so if i wanted to run a file what command would i use

[abhishek456]

so if i wanted to run a file what command would i use

simply use sudo fallowed by the file name

example: for running fdisk

sudo fdisk

[psychaospath]

ok

this is what i did

sudo sh!t.run


except the ! is an i , i renamed the file to make it easier

[psychaospath]

oh my bad lol, it didnt work, all it said is no such command "sh!t.run"