For last two hours I was battling with fresh installation of Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop: for some strange reason radeonhd driver was switching video output to some non-existant connector on my video card, leaving me with a blank screen. Additionally, since this particular card pretty much requires effective power management (it is, putting it bluntly, noisy as hell), the resolution was obvious: install fglrx.
But how?
After several more or less failed attempts to do it the “old” way, booting into rescue and apt-getting fglrx in console, I finally gave up and used the “easy” way: boot into failsafe graphics mode and use the “Drivers” administrative tool. Worked like a charm.
Couldn’t be simpler — for a Windows user. Not for me, unfortunately.