Bad video quality

Second problem of the day. I'm outdoing myself!

I have this problem with playing videos on my computer. The video is really jumpy and it's pretty much unwatchable.

I went on google and found that common problems of this were:
1). The computer not have enough resources.
2). Graphics card problems.

My problem definitely isn't number one. I ran 28 days later on vlc media player whilst I was running gnome system monitor. On both processors I was using around 10-15% and I was only running around 300MB of Ram out of a possible 2GB.

So my problem has got to be my video card.

I have an ATI Radeon 9250 128MB graphics card. I found the drivers here:

ATI Proprietary Linux x86_64 Display Driver 8.28.8 For Intel® EM64T and AMD64 Platform Architecture

Which drivers do I use?

I can't run the check.sh file. I get this error (i've blanked my name out of the terminal):

______@Project-Hollywood ~/Downloads $ sh check.sh
-e ================================================== ===================
-e ATI Technologies
-e ================================================== ===================
You are either not running this script from the console
or simply do not have console ownership. Requirement failed.
Unable to determine XFree86 Version. Stopping now.

and I get the same problem when I run it as a "su".

Anyone have any ideas?

Here's an update.

I downloaded the first one and tried running it. Here's what I got:


Project-Hollywood Downloads # sh ./ati-driver-installer-8.28.8.run
Creating directory fglrx-install
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.28.8............................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .........................
-e ==================================================
-e ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
-e ==================================================
Detected configuration:
Architecture: i686 (32-bit)
X Server: unable to detect
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install

Does anyone know how to get the thing to run?

I was running it as su so that isn't the problem.

It turns out perseverance pays off!

For anyone else with this problem, download this: ATI Catalyst

...then run sh ./the-name-of-the-file.run

Works like a charm!