My computer at home is a bit lacking, so I want to make sure I'm getting the most out of it while I can. Generally speaking, here are the specs:

• 4GB Memory


• AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ × 2


• 64-bit Ubuntu

The terminal shows me the following:

me@home:~$ uname -a

Linux home 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 8 20:45:39 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux



me@home:~$ lspci | grep VGA

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV380 [Radeon X600 (PCIE)]



me@home:~$ sudo lshw -C video

  *-display:0             

       description: VGA compatible controller

       product: RV380 [Radeon X600 (PCIE)]

       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0

       version: 00

       width: 32 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom

       configuration: driver=radeon latency=0

       resources: irq:44 memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:ac00(size=256) memory:fdef0000-fdefffff memory:fdec0000-fdedffff

  *-display:1 UNCLAIMED

       description: Display controller

       product: RV380 [Radeon X600]

       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc

       physical id: 0.1

       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1

       version: 00

       width: 32 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm pciexpress bus_master cap_list

       configuration: latency=0

       resources: memory:fdee0000-fdeeffff



me@home:~$ lspci -nn | grep VGA

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV380 [Radeon X600 (PCIE)] [1002:5b62]

The additional drivers menu in System Settings shows me nothing useful and my attempt at installing ATI's Catalyst Control center (drivers that came with the video card) failed. I believe the latest version of Ubuntu at the time was 9.x.

What should I do? Install an old version of Ubuntu 9? Use some alternative driver?

UPDATE: I might try my hand at a bit from this answer next: "Installing Catalyst Manually (from AMD/ATI's site)" . From a terminal, fgl_glxgears returns the following:

fgl_glxgears: command not found

UPDATE: Per @William's question, here is some additional output:

me@home:~$ sudo apt-get install fglrx

[sudo] password for blong: 

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  libkrb5-3:i386 libk5crypto3:i386 liblcms1:i386 libcupsimage2:i386

  libidn11:i386 xserver-xorg-video-r128-dbg libgnutls26:i386 libtasn1-3:i386

  libfreetype6:i386 libavahi-common-data:i386 libcups2:i386

  libkrb5support0:i386 libgcrypt11:i386 libkeyutils1:i386 libjasper1:i386

  libavahi-client3:i386 xserver-xorg-video-mach64-dbg libfontconfig1:i386

  libgssapi-krb5-2:i386 libavahi-common3:i386 libgpg-error0:i386

Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

The following extra packages will be installed:

  fglrx-amdcccle

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  fglrx fglrx-amdcccle

0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 0 B/41.8 MB of archives.

After this operation, 130 MB of additional disk space will be used.

. Any thoughts?