Oh, and if anyone has trouble with Dapper's default ATI drivers (8.25.18) just work around the fglrx errors by downloading revision 8.14.13 off of ATI's site and taking libGL.so.1 from that package, then replacing it with the one in /usr/lib.
Do you mean the error where its all tweaky, and flickery and crashy? Also do you mean install the revision from ati's site and then copy libGL.so.1 over the copy of libGL.so.1 in /usr/lib or do you mean to take the copy of libGL.so.1 and use it in place of the one in the downloaoded driver?[/color]
I mean the error where OpenGL acceleration won't start and Mesa's default drivers are still listed under fireglcontrolpanel. Upon running something like fgl_glxgears you'll see a whole bunch of fglrx revision errors and it'll likewise fail to start.
"Tweaky and flickery and crashy" is secondary IMO.
As to the second question, I mean to install 8.25.18, then take the libGL from 8.14.13 with
sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-8.14.13-<architecture>-deb --extract <directory>
sudo mv /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.backup
sudo cp directory/x690/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
and use it in place of the one that you were given from 8.25.18.
That should make OpenGL start up normally. Your framerate in glxgears might seem slower than usual, but that shouldn't translate into a real performance dip.
Mine is, with this fix enabled:
9543 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1908.511 FPS
10041 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2008.128 FPS
5106 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1021.069 FPS
5003 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1000.435 FPS
9652 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1930.089 FPS
5011 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1002.100 FPS
