To start off I am no expert. I am a windows convert about a week ago now. However, I’m grabbing Linux by the horns and loving it!

The reason I am posting this is because it took me several hours to figure this out. I could not find in one place an organized concise approach. I’d imagine the experts already know this info but for the new Linux users, I can see this being helpful and also as a reference for me in the future

This does not fix the current memory leak in Xorg or the slow sluggishness of compiz when minimizing, maximizing or resizing. Sadly, I’m experiencing both of these issues on Jaunty with the ATI Driver, I have not tried the open source ATI Driver yet.

I went through many installations and removals of the ati driver during this process. I will only explain how and what I did to actually get the driver working with direct rendering enabled.

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