Okay, thanks. I just wasn't sure if that was the one I wanted.
I'll try it now.

(Man its painful being such a n00b ^^')

Okay, going through those steps I got "make-install.sh" as no such file or directory in '/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod' . I tried "make_install.sh" aswell, then did 'dir' and the only thing there even close is "make.sh" which gave a different error...

"kernel includes at /usr/src/linux/include not found or incomplete
file: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h"

I figured whistling and moving on like it never happened wasn't really a viable solution.

So as always, any help would be greatly appreciated.

the note and the bottom of those steps says that it is necessary to install both packages "linux-headers" (you need the headers for your kernel version; you can find out your hernel version by opening a console and typing uname -r) and "gcc" using synaptic

after that, please read the procedure carefully: you should get no error when executing "make.sh" in /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod... then changing to /lib/modules/fglrx and executing "make_install.sh"... and so on

please let me know if you have any problem

sudo apt-get install build-essential to download the compiler, but it sounds like you already have that since you're getting the header error.

Follow Daynras' instructions and search for linux-headers in Synaptic and download the right ones. I installed the ATI driver recently, myself, so let us know how it goes.

lol, oh *dear*
Sorry about that guys, you can tell I've been doing this for a few days straight now.
You'd think I would have got the hang of it by now.

But yeah, I'm installing those packages now (the reason I hadn't is because I thought they were something else that I had installed during another tutorial so I skipped that step)
I wrote the steps down on paper so that I wouldn't have to switch in and out of the console while I was doing it, but clearly missed a step or two

I'll try to stop asking stupid questions now.

I'll let you know what happens

Well, I did that, and it *seemed* to work fine, but nothing seems to have changed...
I still get the kernel module error in the log file and all the screensavers still jerk like crazy...

Based on observations from current trends, I'd say I did something wrong, but I'm not sure what...

YES! I GOT IT!

I did that shit all over again, and now it seems to be working!

Thanks heaps for all your help and tolerance, its been invaluable

GREAT!!!

at least the procedure was useful!! hehe

just for checking, what does glrxinfo say about your renderer? is it "Mesa" or "ATI"?

It no longer says Mesa
It says "Radeon 9800 Generic" or something to that effect.
(In WinXP atm so I can't check for the exact output)