Ubuntu 2.6.39 kernel and fglrx 8.831

For those 10.10 Maverick users with 2.6.38 or 2.6.39 (64-bit) kernels, you can get fglrx playing nicely together with X.org 1.9.

Unfortunately this new driver does not support X.org 1.10 and that leaves 11.4 users to use the open-source drivers.

Custom build procedure:

1. Install the latest 2.6.38 or 2.6.39 kernel revision from Ubuntu Mainline.
2. Download 64-bit 11.3 from AMD
3. Extract the files from the package: sh ./ati-driver-installer-11-3-x86.x86_64.run --extract ati
4. For 2.6.38 and up, download these patches: makefile_compat.patch and 2.6.38_console.patch
5. For 2.6.39 support, download this additional patch: 2.6.39_bkl.patch
6. Check for Big Kernel Lock usage: cat /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/.config | grep -c CONFIG_BKL=y If the result of this command is 0, then download no_bkl.patch as well.
7. then apply them: cd ati; for i in ../*.patch; do patch -p1 < $i; done
8. Build your new ati/fglrx deb packages: ./ati-installer.sh 8.831 --buildpkg Ubuntu/maverick
9. Install our newly created deb packages: sudo dpkg -i ../fglrx*.deb
10. If your /etc/X11/xorg.conf is missing you will need to run: sudo aticonfig --initial and then reboot.

That newly created package should work for the entire 2.6.38 or 2.6.39 series.