Now, some interesting developments:  this morning, I've decided to try
again the latest fglrx driver, as provided by AMD/ATI (i.e. version
April 16, 2008, released on April 16), after having completely removed
the fglrx driver provided by Ubuntu repos.  After installation/reboot,
the result was the same as usual, i.e.:

fglrxinfo giving me:
$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2)

and Xorg.log indicating:

(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *


Now, out of curiosity, I've tried something I've found in the following thread: 
 http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6062

Here's what I've tried:

sudo rmmod fglrx (result:  ERROR: Module fglrx does not exist in /proc/modules)
cd /lib/modules/(kernel version)/misc/
sudo insmod fglrx.ko
modprobe fglrx

Then, Xserver restart.


It worked!  With this, fglrxinfo reports ATI stuff instead of Mesa stuff.

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Hardy:  fglrx not working for ATI card
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215702
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