Mike Bedwell

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Customizations I do after ubuntu default install on breezy to make my machine work

Enable DMA for cdrom

Edit hdparm.conf

sudo /etc/hdparm.conf

Add this text, replacing hdd with whatever the cdrom device is on the particular machine

/dev/hdd {
        dma = on
}

Setup ATI Drivers

This works for me everytime so far in flawlessly setting up DRI with the fglrx drivers

sudo apt-get install fglrx-control xorg-driver-fglrx
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

When running dpkg-reconfigure you'll be asked a series of questions, i've tracked my responses (hopefully accurately), here are my responses in order (someday i'll update this with the detail of the questions the responses are for) 1- Autodetect 2- fglrx 3,4,5- yes 6- 131072 (very specific to my own video card 128MB of ram, replace with a number that is accurate for the machine specific card) 7- No(kernel framebuffer question, not sure what real effect this has) 8- Yes 9- Enter 10- us 11- xorg 12- Enter 13- microsoftoffice (my own keyboard type, need to replace with whatever maches the keyboard) 14- enter 15- leave blank 16- enter 17- blank 18- no 19- yes 20,21- enter 22- star all modules listed except record 23,24,25- Yes 26- Enter 27- star the resolutions you want 28- Enter 29- Advanced 30- 30-70(specific to my own monitor, customize for current monitor) 31- 50-160(specific to my own monitor, customize for current monitor) 32- Enter 33- 24

I've numbered these, and I "think" that i've got them all in order