Well, if you'd like to reinstall, that's fine. I'll try and find the site that instructed me how to get the driver installed - it was a bit different from what I was used to.

And I didn't use the driver from Synaptic - I downloaded the latest one from ATI instead and installed that one (I seem to have read somewhere that the Ubuntu version doesn't offer the same level of functionality).

Thanks for all the help i have once before tried to install the drivers from ATI and the only problem is that they don't seem to have my driver it dose have the radeon 1600 series but not my card so i download it and i got to the you have finished saving your x window is a good idea blablabla but it did not add my native resolution so if i reinstall the ATI drives and add the resolution if i were to reinstall the drivers form ati and add the resolution then will that work

The x1600 driver should be fine (I'm using that myself but then I do have a plain 1600).

The reason you do not get your desired resolution may have some technical reason that I have just come to think of. Something to do with refresh rates and their impact on your screen resolution. Too complex to explain here - not to mention I may simply be wrong - but I'll come back to it when you are finished installing (though I'm not sure whether I'll be able to get back to you today). I'm still looking for the site I mentioned before - I'm going to post the link here as soon as I find it (I got it bookmarked on my Ubuntu system but I'm on Debian right now and too busy to reboot).

i have finished installing but i don't want to do any thing unless i know it wont repeat the last thing that happened

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide

I used the manual prodecure - that always seems to work best for me, even though it is a bit more work.

Thank you for the help

thank you it finally worked a lot of work but it's a learning experience all need now is to find out why desktop effects wont work